Agencies-Gaza post
Why number of elderly people increased??
The relatives of Josefa Maria da Conceicao’s realized that something wrong when she stopped ordering her daily cigarette that happened after celebrating her 120th birthday.
One of Josefa’s four surviving children, who originally had 22 children said “My mother smoked all her life,”
She confirmed, “As she got older, we tried to get her to stop smoking, but my mom always threatened to get her cigarettes herself.”
These days her relatives’ said Josefa doesn’t appear as much energetic as before. when she rose to fame in her home country after a local television crew discovered she was the “world’s oldest person”.
Factors affecting the health of the elderly:
Individual factors:
Habits and behaviours.
Age-related changes.
Genetic factors.
Having diseases.
Environmental factors:
Home environment.
Assistive technologies.
Transportation.
Social facilities.
