Across
- 2. Older persons may become more sensitive to this temperature
- 4. With gradual loss of height, this becomes shorter
- 6. Medical term for shrinking and weakening of muscles
- 7. The study of the aging process
- 8. Older persons often have urinary frequency and ___________
- 10. Physical changes that are measured/occur in orderly manner
- 14. Skin becomes less ___________as we age
- 15. This gland enlarges in men
- 17. Changes in mental, emotional and social functions
- 19. The __________old are 85 years and older
- 22. Arteries narrow and become ______________
- 23. Bladder muscles ________causing leakage
- 24. The care of aging people
Down
- 1. The heart pumps with less_____________
- 3. Medical term for difficulty breathing
- 4. This hormone often decreases in older men
- 5. These sounds are hard for some older people to hear
- 9. When a person stops working
- 11. Medical term for difficulty swallowing
- 12. The time when menstruation stops/menstrual cycles end
- 13. Retirement often means __________income
- 16. Slowed reflexes are a change in the older person's _______system
- 18. Decreased ________causes flatulence and constipation
- 20. The immune response often ______inolder persons
- 21. Preparing for ones' own ______is a developmental task of elderly