Healthy Aging with Spinal Cord Injury
Aging, like other process along the path of life affects everyone. However, aging encompasses almost all other life processes which makes it's knowledge very important especially in people living disabilities.
Aging healthfully is very important in patients with spinal cord injury as aging tends to set in earlier in earlier than in the population without the injury. Aging is a complex life process related to various variables such as environmental, psychological, physical and lifestyle factors.
Generally, body systems lose their functionalities with age. The degree of this loss however vary with each person. Aging in patients with spinal cord injury is based on some factors including;
Level and severity of injury
Age at injury
Family health history
Lifestyle behaviors; activity levels, smoking, alcohol use and diet
Access to community services and social supports.
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