Senium
Senium is a medical term for old age. The beginning differs from person to person, usually between the ages of 60 and 80. In gynecology , the senium follows about 15 years after menopause .
The senium is characterized by characteristic changes:
- Decrease in physical performance ,
- Atrophy of many internal organs and
- Decrease in the elasticity of all tissues .
Illnesses typical for seniors include senile dementia , arteriosclerosis and carcinoma , with immunodeficiency there is a risk of final pneumonia (fatal pneumonia). These diseases are the subject of gerontology .
Individual evidence
- ^ Specialist in gynecology from Wolfgang Janni, Brigitte Rack and Klaus Friese from Urban & Fischer Verlag / Elsevier 2008, p. 92, online
literature
- Hans Förstl: Dementia in theory and practice . Springer, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 9783540354857
Web links
Wiktionary: Senium - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
