Changes in the functions of the human body:
1. Physical:
• movement (muscles, traumatology)

 
Figure: Pain at old age
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In some people, the fat stored in the body increases by 30% and its distribution changes (decreases under the skin, causing wrinkles), and eventually accumulates around the intestines.

• perception (nervous system)

• defense (immune system)

• sexual (hormone system)


Figure: Backbone/spine problems

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2. Mental:
• thinking (nervous system)
• learning (metabolism, nervous system)
• emotional reactions (hormonal system, nervous system)
Changes in old age can be detected with the help of examinations (screening, examination/check-up, control examination/re-examination, follow-up); comprehensive geriatric assessment in old age (CGA) is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of an individual's somatic, mental, psychological state, social situation, functional status and quality of life.

THE MOST COMMON DISEASES OF OLDER AGE ARE:
-          dementia,
-          alzheimer's disease,
-          osteoporosis,
-          tumour diseases,
-          prostate diseases,
-          hypertension,
-          stroke,
-          heart attack,
-          diseases of the eye,
-          dental and oral diseases.


Figure: Various old age diseases

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