Elder Care and Skin Tags The National Institute on Aging notes that there are many changes that happen to the skin as we age. "It becomes thinner, loses fat, and no longer looks as plump and smooth as it once did. Your veins and bones can be seen more easily. Scratches, cuts, or bumps can take longer to heal. Years of sun tanning or being out in the sunlight for a long time may lead to wrinkles, dryness, age spots, and even cancer." One of the common growths that adorn a senior's body are known as skin tags. Skin tags are small growths of tissue that emerge from many places on the body. The most common places are the eyelids, chest, groin, and anywhere that has folds of skins. These growths appear as small tags (think about the tag on your shirt or a price tag) and they may cause concern. Skin tags are usually only as big …show more content…
If it causes emotional issues because of the way it looks or causes pain due to rubbing, chafing, or catching on clothing, then they can be easily removed in an outpatient setting. Skin tag removal may cause bleeding that last for a day or more based on the size of the skin tag and the area it was removed from. This is part of the reason they should not be removed at home but in a sterile environment where they can be properly treated. In a few cases, a suture may be placed at the removal site. In such cases, elder care personnel may be able to help with a dressing change if your loved one is not able to reach it or is inhibited in some other way. Researchers do not know what causes skin tags, but they are more common in the obese, during pregnancy, and in people with diabetes. They typically occur in areas where there is frequent friction with clothing or other areas of skin. If you senior loved one tends to get skin tags in certain areas, elder care personnel can help them choose clothing that will limit
A tattoo is a mark, on a person, with an unforgotten design by inserting pigments into punctures in the skin. Many people get tattoos because they enjoy designs that mean something to them, but don’t know what type of chemicals or products they put in their skin. Also many people don’t understand how a tattoo can last forever. Pigments and carriers are in tattoo inks.
Collagen in the skin begins to break down, by the sun, this is photoaging, and then wrinkles appear.
...are not a major problem to doctors who feel like they should have the right to wear them. We shouldn’t discriminate just because something is unfamiliar. We should give these doctors a chance to be who they want to be and if having a tattoo or piercing is who they want to be then they shouldn’t be stopped because of unfair judgments.
As you age so does your body, the aging process affects more then just what meets the eye. The aging process will affect a lot of different parts of your body, physically, internally and externally. The immune system, bones, joints, muscles, eyes, ears, organs, the brain are all affected during the aging process. These elements are affected differently and while they all happen for different reasons some they is research that help you to deal with the different issues.
The pride and joy of many people in today’s era was once something that was considered rare and risky. Tattoos have evolved over time too take on different meanings. Historically, tattoos consisted of marks that signified forms of decoration, religious theories, or social status (Kang and Jones). In modern times, people use tattoos as a form of self-expression, symbolism, or even fashion purposes. (Kang and Jones). With many different interpretations,
collagen. With the production of collagen in our bodies slowing down, our skin starts to lose its
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Stretch marks, are a type of scar resulting from an injury to the skin that has restored in a manner of missing the full range of skin components. This scarring is also known as “partial tearing” of the skin and occurs when the skin is being stretched beyond its ability. Often stretch marks will have an appearance of a jagged look caused by improper alignment of skin throughout the healing process. The tearing process of stretch marks usually do not occur until the last three months of pregnancy because of skin being stretched to quickly and causes elastic fibers to break. After the mother has her baby or certain weight has been lost, that’s when the skin will show stretch marks along the abdomen, thighs, arms, or
Features of the human body changes over time, they incline with age as well as decline and change over time. Changes take place in every aspect of human sensory; vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. It has a lot to do with how you treat yourself over time and what you put into your body. Physical activities also help with certain sensory aspects. When it comes to vision and age it’s like putting two layers of plastic bag in front of your eyes (Van Son & Fitzgerald, 2012). Presbyopia is a common health issue that is linked to older adults and vision problems. Older adults since of touch is also altered as time progresses and this may cause older adults skin to harden or certain parts of their skin to callus over. According to Van Son and Fitzgerald, smell and touch are really close to one another when it comes to aging. With age older adults lose their sense of some tastes fade and other heightens (Van Son & Fitzgerald, 2012). When you decline in one sense your other senses potentially become stronger. The last sensory that is tested within older adults is hearing. Hearing can become very hard. High-pitched sounds are easier to pitch up. Older adults that have problems hearing invest into hearing aids. Ethel did not mention having issues with any of her sense, but I did notice that she lost hear train if thought at times but she definitely picked it back up, and she
It is noted that tattooing (a Tahitian word meaning “to mark something”) has existed since 12,000 years BC. As noted in “A Brief History of Tattoos,” women in Borneo tattooed their symbols on their forearm indicating their particular skill. If a woman wore a symbol indicating she was a skilled weaver, her status as prime marriageable material was increased. In tribes, tattoos around the wrist and fingers were believed to ward away illness and bad spirits. In recorded history, the earliest tattoos can be found in Egypt during the time of the erection of the great pyramids. As the Egyptians expanded their empire, the art of tattooing spread along with it. The civilizations of Crete, Greece, Persia, and Arabia picked up and expanded the art form (“A Brief History of Tattoos). The Greeks used tattooing for communication among spies by identifying them and showing their rank. Romans marked criminals and slaves, a practice still carried on today.
They’re what you see on your friends, family and people walking on the streets. This growing debate on tattoos brings me to the point of the evolution of tattoos. Tattoos were once believed to be a risky trend and are now becoming more of the norm. As we know it tattoos are not as unusual as they once were. There are many different reasons behind why people get tattoos, for example personal losses, symbolism, or just the concept of it being art. Most believe tattooing is just another medium of art and it should be respected along with the tattoo artist who give them. A lot of people differ in opinion behind what, where, and how people should get their tattoos. A strong topic to think about is what to get as a tattoo in the first place. Then there is the topic of where to get a tattoo so it will not put an individual’s professional image down the drain. Finally, the last important basic topic to think about is how you are going to get a tattoo. There are two reasons to ask this question and one is the sterilization of the needle. The second one is the age limit of the person who is getting the tattoo. If one is too young then it defeats the concept of getting a tattoo in the first place because of the committed decision one has to make before getting a tattoo.
...worse than before. For instance, old men and women inject their faces to resemble those in their youth, but they worsen their mental and physical state by executing such actions. To conclude, one should embrace her appearance because aging is inevitable.
As we age, our skin not only gets less elastic, but it also loses the ability to create certain biologically compositions that help keep the skin soft, smooth, and healthy-looking. The best anti wrinkle creams will usually contain compounds or ingredients that try to mimic the effects of these compositions, since they tend to work -albeit not permanently- and the skin usually absorbs them fairly
While over forty million people in the United States today are 65 years old or older, not one ages in exactly the same way. The speed of the aging process depends upon biological and psychological factors, and social factors that influence them. Senescence, the physical decline of the body’s functioning leading to the increased the likelihood of death, accompanies aging and is unavoidable. The physical body starts to wear as body systems, such as the nervous system and immune system, start to slow down. The integumentary system, skin and hair, shows many visible signs of aging - wrinkling, sun damage, greying, while the skeleton starts to compress from the effects of gravity and the muscles, kidneys, and blood vessels perform less efficiently than before. Sensory perception dulls as one ages as well, and many older people struggle with hearing and vision in particular. Naturally, this would lead to an
To begin, one must be familiar with these types of modifications. A tattoo is the practice of marking the skin with different pictures,