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El envejecimiento ¿estamos preparados? | María Lucia Samudio | TEDxUniSabana


I come to ask you some questions some
of you have thought how is
getting old
Some of you have thought how
they want to live their old age
how nice to hear those answers makes me happy
very much some of you have thought
how do you want to die
and well I come to make an invitation
and I come with courage understood how to act
from the heart
to put on the table a taboo subject my
subject is not so blockbusters there are others more
but I come to talk to you about
old age
dependence but I also come to
speak of vigor or vigor of life
life at the end with all the energy
possible with all the energy that exists
because to talk about aging to
someone comes up because it’s
important to talk about aging
because it is life and because we are in a
world that is aging is a
aging is inevitable
and the statistics do not confirm it in the
world for 2015 12.3 percent of
the people were older than 60 they were
estimated that by 2020 this will go up to
13.5 percent and by 2050 it is expected
that 21 percent of all the
population be old be they people
over 60 years the process passes
of population aging is
different in different countries the
older countries are the countries
developed or with high income like
for example which france do you know how much
It took this aging process in
France
100 years let’s look at figures in 2015 on 23
percent of the population was older than
60 years this figure increased in 2020 to
25 percent today france is already
aged his entire population is already
aged and in 2050 the 32.9 by
percent the population will be over 60
years what happens in Colombia let’s talk about
colombia in colombia for 2010 10%
of the population was older than 60 that
figure for 2020 will already be in the
13 percent already come that will happen
for 2050 it’s going to double and a little
more than 26 percent of the population
Colombian will be over 60 years
It will be important to talk about this topic and
put this topic on the table I think
yes sometimes with these and other issues
we want to do those of the houses or
we want to cover the sun with our hands and
do to us what this is not with me the
that age are those next door
and aging is a process that
It starts from the moment we are born
aging from day zero and it’s a
process that takes us to the final stage
of life cycle life which is the
old age but this is framed in the
course of life and in the course of life and
Many aspects influence that we will see in
a while and what options we have before
we have the way to or the way and the
way to is to accept our process of
aging assume it and act on
I change the way you see that it is also
valid
but it has its consequences is in
reject everything related to
aging and old age denying it and
paralyze us when you do not accept what
is happening for when one is not
aware of what is happening is
paralyzes and that has its consequences
because aging has is so
important because it has some
characteristics
the first is individual in the process
Aging of Maria Lucia Samudio is
different from each one of you is
different from mariana my cousin’s daughter
who was born and has three months or the
laura the daughter of my cousin who has 18
13 years old or is different from the younger
My cousins of mine who has 30
I’m 39 or so up until I get
to micro senior who is 78 years old
is heterogeneous what does that mean that
it’s very different we do not all get old
just not all of us get old just like
old age in that time of life he is
heterogeneous we’re going to see more
go ahead with an example of life is
complex and understand complexes not like
difficult as complicated but it is
composed of many parts that does
complex and in addition and it’s the best and that’s what
what I want you to take away today in
their minds and in their hearts is that it is
modifiable because it is already modifiable
I will tell for now let’s talk about
aging of things that maybe
it’s a little easier to raise your hand
the one who does not have his cell phone with you
at that moment
all very good Remember that
cell that I had have in the hand and the
day 0 they bought it they remember it was
the most one had the rubber and wanted
know how it worked that new things
had that gadgets had compared to the
previous true but time passes and the
cell phone is getting damaged is going to damage
and more if they are if they are caught with
against the floor again and again as
happens with mine and I have to change it
before certain time and what happens
new new isabelle technology come out
cell phones and then we want to relegate
that cell and a new one comes out which is the
advantage with the human being that we
we have we can make the decision of
relegate us as adults as when
when we are aging or being
active in our process of
aging and I bring you a good
news the aging process and
old age by 10% depends on the genetic
but instead 90% depends on me
Lifestyle
depends on lifestyle
of each one and those around us
we can all be promoters of a
healthy lifestyle and style
of life but in active aging
for ourselves and for those of us
surround because that is so because the
aging depends on several
factors is the biological is the
physical that there is 10% of what
genetic although not exclusively
also how we eat the exercise that
we do all those activities are going to
influence on the biological is what
psychological the mind our best or
worst ally is the social thing is what
economic , cultural, and many more
aspects this is what science does
of gerontology the study of
aging and within those is the
geriatrics that we are the doctors that we
We dedicate to the care of the elderly
I’m going to talk to you from my own
story I can not talk about bees
because I’m not old yet
at what age do you think it is
consider an old person someone knows
60 years very well
I’m sorry to tell you the or ms says that the
elderly person aging
is from the age of 60 and here we come to
accept good then he will tell of my
aging process at 15 years old
started I did not do it consciously in that
moment I was going down on the farm
trotting that I liked a lot in that
era and someone has felt the knee
weak as it is going as it is
wobbles because mine has one thing that
it’s called patellofemoral deviation is
say that the femur and the knee are
misaligned and pink all the time and
then it makes my knee a
jello and I fell and I fell in a moment
not so cool was in eighth grade
I was going for the school trip to
park the snowy the best of all the
that with all the illusion one expected and
what happened I could not go
several years passed and I continued with my
knee with medel deviation
patelofemoral name so elegant and
I followed and I never paid attention to
the doctor and very little this year my
good knee always felt like a
feeling of heaviness like that I have
a pain there but in specific but
I never paid attention to the blow on the
knee mixed water and I did the
of the short layers and the year for him that
our past was in class and one day
my left knee said no more the one
it bothered me at first it was to the
right because I had overloaded so much
left that the right that the
left was affected and then it touched me
go to the emergency room they put me analgesic
they gave an inability to guess that
I did not take it
and I went to my usual orthopedist
that he had already sent me several times to
therapy I did the one I did not want
several taxi resonances that I did not
I wanted to do them and it finally touched me
serve and he gave me the diagnosis of a
early osteoarthritis yes gentlemen to my 39
years I have an early arthrosis and I
I’m going to tell you has many effects and the
acceptance process has been normal
but I ‘m going to tell you what has most
bothered me before I covered myself in a single
now time the strength in my muscles
he does not allow me and I have to stop in
several times has been what has most
bothered but well there we go and
then I with this 10% of genetics that
he had an early osteoarthritis
then I’ll have an aging
but we will look at it in the
future for now in today and that
I want to tell you that not all of us
equal to old age there are different ways
of living old age there are old people
vigorous and here I want to bring up
my uncle Carlos who at 78 years old
works on projects in the Sierra Nevada
of santa marta working for the
organic agriculture and it goes by bus and
does a rest of things and is totally
active
there are also fragile people and those are
people that because of the cumulative effect
of age have one more situation
vulnerable they get married faster lose
weight lose strength but there are also
people with different degrees of
dependence and are already most affected are
I will share with the story of
life of my grandparents my grandparents lasted
more or less sixty-odd married years
and I was fortunate to have a
vigorous grandparents I remember that today
We went to the house every Sunday
I was at the club with my grandfather
playing tennis playing and playing tennis
both played bridge we passed the
Christmas we went for a walk and were
active people in 2005 pretty much
my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer
of prostate and there entered into stage of
fragility no longer had the same
could not play tennis anymore but
he was still living his life
somehow and were advancing the
things and started having to present
memory changes he forgot the
things the network lost one day began to
have problems managing money
they made the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s if
alzheimer disease affecting the
zinc between 5 and 8 percent
the population this disease that
diagnoses a case every 4 seconds
and it was a complex process and required
the unity of the whole family my grandfather
it was deteriorating initially
presented slight dependence after
moderate dependence until he presented
severe dependence and it was necessary
hire a third party to get us
will help take care of the whole family
we were there that was complex it was not
easy there were very difficult moments but
the reflection of how it was aging
it was noticed at the end of his life
fortunately it was always an excellent
athlete and we avoided having so many
contractures and so many positions that
present in the people who are left
inflamed but he was also a person
of a very strong temperament and in
crisis of behavior change these
that also looked
My grandfather and grandmother died at 2 years old
he was detected a vascular dementia with
she the process was more was different
she decided when she had a dementia
light institutional to be institutionalized
that is, move to a place where
where they took care of her even though she
We offered to live with us, not what
he wanted to do and he respected his autonomy
and with her it was very strong and for me
personally the acceptance process
it was complicated I could not accept it until
the point that in the end my grandmother instead
of brushing teeth was not wanted
wash your teeth and a lot in the past
six months never just one voice and I do not
I accepted, I went with the cream
patients with dementia learn by
imitation do not wash my teeth and she
I could not do it, I gave her the cream and she
getting up was difficult but it is also
a way of aging that changed that
the whole family we were there for
accompany him with this I have many
learnings many life lessons
on a personal level and taking into account what
what
It has been discovered in the blue areas
which are the four countries where they live
the most active and longest-lived people
healthier than they are in italy in
costa rica in loma linda califórnia and in
okinawa I come to share that I am
doing that today one of the
first things is my spirituality
Trust in God is undeniable and that is
the inspiration to get up all the
days and fulfill my mission of life and
with what I love most to take care of and
accompany the elderly from
my work also supported me in the
biodanza a lifestyle that helps me
very much the other important thing
that was found in that study
Transcultural is the power of the family
and I saw it reflected in my grandparents when
with the union among all we could
take care of them and accompany them in a stage and
at a very difficult time
the other is the power of friends and here
the friends with whom I could not go have
opted are still there I do not know if it’s
because we are approaching 40 and
we have a chat that is said heating up
engines for the 40 to be able to organize
our celebration but
very nice the reunion and at level
professional in two areas since
I accompanied my two grandparents I understood that
I had to practice medicine from another
way and that I had to devote to
do accompanying processes for
seniors with a program of
comprehensive care for the elderly
so that with a single objective to give life
to that person’s days it does not matter if
he is a vigorous person
fragile with any degree of
dependency or if it is at the end of life and
finally at the university as
Professor invited the rest of the
teachers to include within their
matters within education the whole
what can be presented from the
different professions to attend to
needs of older adults who
they are many very diverse and very complex
I ‘m already waiting for medicine
starting to do and I hope that the
doctors of the future that are the ones that
they will attend to me and many of you
have the ability to take care of a
different way that they are doing
you for your aging I invite you
to be consulted tonight with the
pillow that you are doing for
accompany the old age of their cds
Dear ones, I also invite you to
consult with the pillow I accept that
to age is to live
to grow old is to live and inevitably I live
present today the here and now and
each step I give with the intention of
build the past has a future
I want to see thanks hugs with me
heart
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