There are many factors which influence health and well-being. Living conditions can affect an individual’s health and well-being by putting their health at risk. For example, if an individual such as an elderly person lives in a crowded house and their house has damp then, this can affect their health because damp can cause you more like to have respiratory infections or asthma. One of the reasons for excess winter deaths is cold and damp houses. The cold and damp in turn aggravates circulatory diseases, which can lead to strokes and heart attacks or respiratory illnesses such as bronchitis or pneumonia. http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/briefing19/
Older people who maintain social contact have fewer health problems. For example, older people who are married tend to be in better health than those who live alone. When older people live alone they may have problems and symptoms but they may not report it because they do not notice it or nor does anyone else, they may have no one to help them to take their medicines and prepare a healthy meal for them. Also, if an old person is living alone they may not be able to provide for themselves this can affect their health and well-being the individual may start to age quickly and health problems may occur. http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/aging/aging-process/aging-causes.htm …show more content…
These can be vision, hearing, and memory and reduced metabolism. Vison loss is among people age 50 and older. When you start to age you will notice it’s more difficult to focus on object which are close up because of presbyopia. This is a perfectly normal loss of focusing ability due to hardening of the lens inside your eye. Also, some people are affected by hearing loss. There is no known single cause of age-related hearing loss. Most commonly it is caused by changes in the inner ear that can occur as you grow old.
Older people who maintain social contact have fewer health problems. For example, older people who are married tend to be in better health than those who live alone. When older people live alone they may have problems and symptoms but they may not report it because they do not notice it or nor does anyone else, they may have no one to help them to take their medicines and prepare a healthy meal for them. Also, if an old person is living alone they may not be able to provide for themselves this can affect their health and well-being the individual may start to age quickly and health problems may occur. http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/aging/aging-process/aging-causes.htm …show more content…
These can be vision, hearing, and memory and reduced metabolism. Vison loss is among people age 50 and older. When you start to age you will notice it’s more difficult to focus on object which are close up because of presbyopia. This is a perfectly normal loss of focusing ability due to hardening of the lens inside your eye. Also, some people are affected by hearing loss. There is no known single cause of age-related hearing loss. Most commonly it is caused by changes in the inner ear that can occur as you grow old.