Lifespan Project

By: Cody Jonas Anatomy 3rd period

Chapter 1
As we grow older our body ages with us; aging occurs from conception on, and takes it turn on cells, tissue, organs, and organ systems. The first sign of aging occurs around the age of thirty, along with this aging female fertility starts to decline. Later on in the forties and fifties adult onset disorders that may begin. Next our skin ages causing elastin, collagen, and subcutaneous fat start to show less. Older people may start to metabolize drugs at different rates than younger people. Finally as we get older cells start to divide only a limited number of times, as DNA falters, and mutations may accumulate. These are some of the many changes that occur as our body ages.

Chapter 6
As we age a number things occur in the integumentary system. As our skin ages, age spots and liver spots appear and grow, along with wrinkling and sagging. Because of changes in the amount of sweat glands and shrinking capillary beds in the skin, older people are less able to tolerate the cold and cannot regulate heat. Aged skin has a diminished ability to activate vitamin D which is necessarily for skeletal health. These are some of the changes that occur to the integumentary system during the aging process. Interconnections: In the respiratory system stimulation of skin receptors may alter respiratory rate.