Jacob M. Graff is a respected healthcare management executive in the Los Angeles, California, entrepreneurial community who has served as the CEO of an eldercare company for more than 30 years. He has overseen the acquisition, development, and administration of various eldercare facilities. Jacob Graff also oversees eldercare facilities that provide sub-acute care for aging individuals.
While it is unfortunately affirmative that aging comes with mental and physical health trade-offs, the degree to which health is affected varies, and often, it is not so bad. In fact, for some seniors, mental health is not affected at all.
Many people associate aging with cognitive impairments (a series of conditions characterized by neurological degeneration and a decline in mental health), but this is only true for some people. For many older adults, cognitive aging is the case. Cognitive aging, unlike cognitive impairment, does not involve the degeneration of brain cells. Rather, cognitive aging is characterized by the decimation of cell functions in the brain.
To understand cognitive aging, think of how people gradually lose their running speed when they begin to age. However, this doesn’t mean they can’t run, but they can’t do it as fast as they once could. Instead of decreasing motor speed, as in the instance given, cognitive aging makes the brain work slower. This delays cognitive functions like reasoning and memory but does not always cause cognitive incapacity or cause them to be totally dependent on others.
Jacob Graff 