{"id":30524,"date":"2024-08-29T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/?page_id=30524"},"modified":"2024-08-29T10:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:16:42","slug":"old-age-and-frailty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/health\/old-age-and-frailty\/","title":{"rendered":"Old age and frailty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"30524\" class=\"elementor elementor-30524 elementor-437\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-af02fda elementor-section-narrow_boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default whads-elementor-background-overlay-visibility-all\" data-id=\"af02fda\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-709614b\" data-id=\"709614b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bb0732 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4bb0732\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes that health is \u201cnot merely the absence of disease or infirmity\u201d but rather \u201ca state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.\u201d This is especially relevant in the case of elderly people, for whom these different elements are frequently precarious. To this we can add that <strong>aging is an extremely heterogeneous process<\/strong>, in which a person\u2019s chronological age alone is a poor indicator of health status. There are 70-year-olds with a cellular and metabolic age comparable to a person of 50, and 40-year-olds who, at the cellular and metabolic level, seem much older.<\/p><p>There are many different ways to define healthy aging, however, the general consensus is that it includes the following elements: a low level of co-morbidity, a high level of social interaction, good functionality and autonomy. Thus, depending on the person\u2019s overall state of health and the degree of independence, there are \u201celite\u201d elderly people and \u201cfrail\u201d elderly people.<\/p><p>The alterations in the sense of taste and smell, functional disabilities and social isolation that accompany aging predispose people to inappropriate dietary habits and\/or imbalances between nutrient intake and individual needs. This has a series of consequences, such as weight loss, alterations of the immune system, worsening of the underlying health condition, longer hospital stays and repeated admissions, and poorer quality of life. This is what we call a frail elderly person, and adequate basic micronutrient intake is paramount in this case.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98913cc elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"98913cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50da4cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"50da4cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Meydani M. Nutrition interventions in aging and age-associated disease. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2001 Apr;928:226-35. Review. PubMed PMID: 11795514.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) establishes that health is \u201cnot merely the absence of disease or infirmity\u201d but rather \u201ca state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.\u201d This is especially relevant in the case of elderly people, for whom these different elements are frequently precarious. To this we can add that aging is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"parent":30464,"menu_order":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30524","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30528,"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30524\/revisions\/30528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laboratoriolcn.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}