primary+aging+(senescence)

=1376004272= = Definition: = Age-related physical changes that have a biological basis and are universally shared and inevitable. HGD, Chapter 13, p.334

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 * Gray hair
 * Wrinkles
 * Changes in visual acuity
 * Changes in auditory acuity

= Analogies: = Primary aging is like the effects that take place in fruit. If you leave a fruit without it being eaten or preserved, then the fruit will inevitably get wrinkled and soft. This same idea applies to people through pimary aging.

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=In the News:= 5 Signs an Elderly Person Shouldn't Be Living Alone There are 5 signs such as healthy but can't live alone safely, early sign of Alzheimer's, physical impairment, changes in personality, and a great burden to the family.

[|As Elderly People Age: Primary Aging] Primary aging refers to the aspects of the normal aging process that we have no control over. Gerontologists refer to these genetically based and uncontrollable declines in hormones and hormone-like substances produced by the body as //trophic factors//.

[|Primary aging, Secondary aging, and Intelligence] The distinction between primary aging, representing innate maturational processes, and secondary aging, representing the effects of environment and disease (Busse, 1969), was used to develop a model for the assessment of factors that are associated with age-related individual differences in intelligence.

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