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What Problems Do Older People Experience?  

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What problems do older people experience? Are these problems biological or cultural? As older people age, they suffer a lot of biological problems. However, in some societies, these problems are considered good things. I have found a lot of information on this from the Human Body Video. As humans get older their eyesight deteriorates. They get things like double vision, cataracts, they have trouble focusing and eventually they can go completely blind. Hair loss is suffered as people age. Some people's hair will go grey or white. Men sometimes go bald, but this usually doesn't happen to women, but they can get patches after a shock. Peoples' skin also deteriorates, they get wrinkles, it becomes thinner, losses its elasticity and it losses proteins like Elastogen. Sometimes spending more time in the sun and absorbing more of its rays increase this. Peoples' teeth degrade after many years of use. The ratio between fat and muscle...

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