Master Thesis Preparation
IV. AGING The necessity of care facility. (介護施設の必要性) Defining the aging and to determine the changing from adult to elderly. The border cut off 65 which is a chronological measurement that is related with ability is not practical to measure the capacity of human.11 Of course, when a human get more age, we will change as gray hair or wrinkles that it may show a appearance of age visually. According to the Encyclopedia Nipponica 12 the aging phenomena of a human is a general term which is complexed observations with several aspects observing to the human body. According to Joseph K, the developing of aging is a slowly process which is difficult to realize consciously by ourself.
“ Physiological appearance is a deception.” “It will not act as am accurate predictor of capability” “ The problem is that heath is not a constant which suddenly evaporates at the onset of death. Everyone tends to change or develop both physiologically and in other ways throughout the life span and especially in advanced years” Source: World Health Organization (2012), “Fact Sheet Number 362. Dementia”, www.who.int/mediacentre/ factsheets/fs362/en/.
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DESIGNING THE OPEN NURSING HOME : Joseph A. Koncelik : 1976 : Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross , Inc.
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Encyclopedia Nipponica (日本大百科全書) ; Shogakukan, Inc. : 2001
