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Envejecer con Sentido | Antonio Valdivia López | TEDxAvDeLosRíos


what is the first thing you think when
listen to the word future
have you ever thought about it
in the future
I’m sure when you think about it
you visualize super powerful machines
able to perform any activity
of our daily life
you have probably imagined
super advanced technology
generation
it probably came to your head that
we conquer the planet Mars the most
venturesome perhaps imagined a
kind of humanoid something like
taken from a science movie
fiction
Today I come to talk about the only future
What can I guarantee if it is not
you die before old age
and it is that we hardly think of the
old age as a possibility we are
conditioned to live in here and in the
now that we do not think about the
future is more sometimes we even think that
it is forbidden to imagine what
and think of them as important as
is breathing at this moment
when I start a medical career
He was a boy of 18 or 20 years old that neither
I thought about it
throughout my academic education as
my interest was to specialize in
pediatrics the other end of life
it’s more the academic programs of all
the medical schools of this country
they did not contemplate the matter of geriatrics
nobody thought that was not attractive
think about it
Today I can tell you and I can talk to you about what
beautiful that is old age and I say so
beautiful with all its letters and I’ll
I can say because I have faced
every day of my life
it’s true I’m not an old man I’m not a
old man I am not an adult of the third
age but every day I face cases
where I can describe perfectly
what is old age
not everything was easy at first to me
played witnessing acts and scenarios so
terrifying as if they were taken out of
an episode of a novel by víctor hugo
cases of abandonment cases of abuse
cases of physical abuse
psychological poverty disease
supposed
and the worst part of the case is that nobody
I was interested in it
we had to chop rock for
be able to enter the academic programs
with a matter of geriatrics
mexico is a country that like the
rest of the world is changing
demographically speaking every time we are
older ones or are we going to be older in
comparison to adults
young are the children currently in
our country there are 12 million
older adults that represents 10 per
percent of our population is as if
join all the people of the
states of sonora chihuahua and coahuila
at the same time and in the same place
would mean then that 10% of
resources that we have as a country should
be intended for the benefit of
older adults so for example
when we go to a mall
when we go to the bank when we go to
super simple and simply walk by
our streets 10% of the
infrastructure that is in these
places must be focused for the
mobility of older adults and I’ll
I wonder is this way
of course not
another thing that calls me a lot the
attention did not catch my attention
it’s one time I was involving moms
with the life of my patients and not only
focus on the health problem but
that I went focus including or getting
in their personal and private lives
I asked my patients what
you think about old age, you, what if
you are in your old age, which at this moment
you are an older adult person what do you think
it hurts makes you sad
you’re frustrated that you feel tell me tell me
and beyond many answers that
I got there was a common denominator
between all of them and that denominator
common was something as simple as
following
the only thing I’m sorry about is not
have done all those things that I could and
I did not dare
the only thing I would like to change is
those things that I had put in
silver tray and for some reason no
I dared to do them
The only thing that hurts me is not having
thought that at some point in my life
I was going to get here
I do not know what the diseases just do not
they complained about poverty they did not complain about
nothing of that eventually in some
At the time, all these situations diminished
raised his welfare condition but
the most important thing was that all the
things that could develop and not
dared to do
do not wait until you’re 70 to think
that you are aging
you are aging from the first
day of your life
every day thousands of cells are
changing in your body a nation and
others die
you are not the same as yesterday you are
aging here and now
and I invite you to do it but with
sense
that here and now you take all the
functions and actions so that if you have
the opportunity to reach old age what
make sense
do not wait until you are over 40 years old
realize that the knees exist
just because they hurt you
do not expect to treat wrinkles on your face
wait to have gray hair
do not wait to live conditioned by a
medication indicated by your doctor on
rest of your life to be able to take a
quiet healthy life
it is true it is here and now
is here and now but with a goal that
if everything goes well and the natural history
of your life you are going to face it in
sometime
is here and now where I invite you to
eat well to sleep to rest
to form a group of solid friends
which are the ones that are going to help you when
be an old man
elements of a successful aging
It is here where I invite you to
you change your way of thinking
I’m not asking you to live
Anguished thinking about the future
I’m not asking you to live
depressed taking a look back
live here and now it’s as if
let’s drive a car
your car your gear lever you
steering wheel of your directionals is here is
the present you are driving
however everyone has a
rearview mirror to which we throw a
look from time to time and we look towards
back to the past
and of course we also have a
target or a destination to which we want
to reach that is our future
the three things must be
balanced at the same time
do not believe that, do not turn around
back and not distressing about the future
all three things must be at the same
old age time afterwards it’s like a luxury
that not all can be given in life
old age then it’s like running a marathon
you may not reach the goal
You can arrive failing you and
suffering
or you can arrive with your arms up in
sign of joy everything depends on how you
you have prepared many thanks
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