PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE AGING PROCESS

Demographic changes in the world have begun to raise concerns among experts that health systems, pension funds, as well as health insurance companies and the public funding system will be affected in the long run, changes that will be severely affected by the rapid growth of population. The extent of older people's needs is growing and includes environmental, psychological, social, educational and financial functional confluences as well as physiological and structural problems. The elderly challenge the health care systems due to multiple levels of their needs. In general, medical problems are the result of poor nutrition, deviation of physiological constants, disorders in regulating the inflammatory reaction, walk disorder, immobility, confusion, syncope, sleep disorders. As a result, even the road to the pharmacy can be a torment. The physiological changes that occur as we age are undeniable. The most common visible changes are related to greying hair, changes in the perception of the sense organs, changes in the appearance of the skin, muscle tone, etc. Loss of vision may be a barometer of the onset of aging in somatically healthy patients