To know how to age: positive aspects and new perspective

Abstract

The aging process characterizes by its universality, affecting all the human beings. It has his origin in the conception of the being, it is developed with the passage of the years and finishes, unfailingly, with the end of the life. The study of the aging is justified by the significant increase of people majors of 65 years pre- sent in the present society. In addition, the demographic evolution establishes that they will continue increasing. This supposes the necessity to create rehabilitating and preventive strategies, that can delay or prevent the problems related to the age. Although at first it was considered to the aging in terms of deterioration and degra- dation with clearly negative aspects, nowadays, those expositions have been obsole- te. It mainly appears a new concept of aging based on the improvement of the qua- lity of life of the people majors. Thus, at the present time, it is not considered, the aging like a involutivo process but, on the contrary, of evolution, growth and deve- lopment, based, mainly in the experience of the people majors.

In order to favor the healthful aging it is necessary to maintain and to take care of the health doing physical exercise, to realise a suitable diet etc, and at the same time to maintain the mental activity agile, not only through the daily activities but realising programs of mental training for people majors. These programs are desti- ned to improve and to maintain the perceptive, attention and mnésica capacity pro- viding to the people majors strategies that allow them to realise a codification and information retrieval adapted to each situation.