OLD PEOPLE # 2

Old People can be considered old because of certain changes in their activities or social roles. Examples: people may be considered old when they become grandparents, or when they begin to do less or different work retirements.

 I think that old people have to be protected for the government because they sometimes in their final days of their lives, they remain without money because the authorities didn't help to assistance to old people, because they spent many years working and sometimes they don't have anything person that could help them in the final moments of their lives and I think that  it is an injustice that old people later many years working hard they can't  live their final days as happy moments.

                      Physical changes

There is often a general physical decline, and people become less active. Old age can cause, amongst other things:

• Wrinkles and liver spots on the skin due to loss of subcutaneous fat
• Change of hair colours to gray or white
• Hair loss
• Reduced circulatory system function and blood flow
• Reduced lung capacity
• Reduced immune system function
• Changes in the vocal cords that produce the typical "old person" voice
• Lessened hearing
• Diminished eyesight
• Reduced mental/cognitive ability.
• Depressed mood
• Lessening or cessation of sex, sometimes because of physical symptoms such as erectile dysfunction in men, but often simply a decline in libido
• Greater susceptibility to bone and joint diseases such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis

It must be stressed that each individual is different, and health issues that affect one elderly person may not affect another.

(Notes: Physical changes were taken from Wikipedia)