Healthy lifestyles and chronic-degenerative diseases in older adults

Aging has an associated and highly interrelated component that is disease, both due to biological causes such as genetics and the changes inherent to the stage, as well as due to the influence of psychosociocultural components that influence its appearance. In the stage of older adulthood, chronic-degenerative diseases are characterized by a prolonged and progressive course, which causes various disabilities in older people around the world, and their manifestations become so chronic that they can cause death. These diseases are cardiovascular, chronic respiratory, neurodegenerative, musculoskeletal, cancer, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, systemic arterial hypertension, among others.
A healthy lifestyle can help prevent or delay the development of chronic-degenerative diseases, improve the prognosis of people who suffer from them, optimize the control of risk factors for chronic diseases, and therefore increase the quality of life of people. people.
Taking into account the aforementioned, the general objective of this research is to determine the influence of healthy lifestyles to face health problems due to the most frequent chronic-degenerative diseases of older adults.