Concept paper on healthy aging
International Journal of Development Research
Concept paper on healthy aging
Received 07th March, 2019; Received in revised form 25th April, 2019; Accepted 30th May, 2019; Published online 30th June, 2019.
Copyright © 2019, Gowtham Dev and Dr. Vinny Narayan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Aging begins before birth and continues throughout life at different rates, in different races for different individuals and for different tissues of the body. Explaining why ageing occurs is a solution to the longstanding enigma of the role of senescence in nature and even after half a century of progress, the solution continues to unfold slowly but steadily. The healthcare professionals must prepare themselves to equip the above 50 years citizens to achieve healthy aging in a systematic fashion. Although we do not have a comprehensive protocol that suits all sections of the society, there are some common elements that need to aware off which is discussed in detail in this
