A gerontologist is generally someone who does research in the area of aging. Because aging can be defined broadly and everybody ages differently. Researchers from a wide range of fields – help the aging age – some aren’t physicians. Such as psychologist, biologist and with some instances economist who tell people when to retire. As with the Talmidic scholar Ben Azai said. “every man has his time.”
For those whom have great emotional support or regularly attend religious services at least once a week and have better survival rates. In some studies, those who lack community and social ties were more likely to die earlier in life than those whom do have those connections. Also outlook plays an important aspect, as well as, denying your age and seeing yourself healthy is key to success.
With your relationship with your doctor an added dimension as well. Its important to not allow your doctor to treat you in a colloquialisms patronizing manner while enjoying a visit. A physician should never ignore, interrupt or be dismissive of your complaints, thereby, being to quick to refer test or prescribe a pill. Thereby, before entering into their office be prepared to organize your thoughts and articulate your chief complaint.
Prioritize your complaints, list the events leading to your event and bring a list of your medications. Also be specific, be transparent, don’t allow them to talk down to you. Also never assume your medical record will travel from your physician to a specialist and back again. While having your doctor make the time to go over it with you to make sure it has been communicated correctly.
Miscommunication (or non communication) happens all the time and it is your responsibility to make sure your doctors are on the same page. The King of Care Transition is Eric Coleman at the University of Colorado. He has studied the myriad of medical errors, dissecting how – why older people get into trouble when they move facility to facility or providers.
With most of his work being supported by John A. Hartford Foundation, and his discovery that the risk of care transition can often be prevented. In a related study, medication discrepancies where three times more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within a month. With your doctor unaware 62 percent of the time of changes… the patient gets tied up in the mix up.
Being this is a fact: its always important to know much to do about the it’s nothing. The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), and on its fabulous site http://infoonaging.org/ has a huge archives of evidence based answers to questions about treatments of which both naturally and conventional. Also websites like Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com and PubMed www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed are vital resources.
While details to navigate the websites are sketchy and also complicated. Excellent tutorials http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar.about.html for Google Scholar and www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed tutorials for PubMed can be found. Getting a hold of the articles on a subject of interest is just a first step in your healing process.
Its idea to know quick references of Medicare and Medicare which can be found at Kaiser Family Foundation website www.kff.org/medicaid and www.kff.org/medicare or www.medicare.gov and www.medicaid.gov If it’s Eldercare http://www.eldercare.gov/Eldercare.NET/Public/Index.aspx are great resources. While its important to note some supplements ( folic acid, vitamin A can be detrimental, thereby, gaining it through beta carotene and folate in your diet …makes it wise to do your own research?