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WHY IS LIFE EXPECTANCY INCREASING?

There are many reasons why there has been such a significant increase in life expectancy. Here, we look at the major causes, which help you live for a 100 years and more. Also Read - Having chia seeds every day can help you control your diabetes, cholesterol and more

Improvement in medical care

The meteoric rise in medical care, including innovations in care protocols is one of the major factors in people living longer. Deaths due to myocardial infractions (heart attacks to the lay person) reduced by over 55 per cent in the1970s and 80s. Infectious diseases, a cause of many deaths, reduced with the increase in standard of living, hygienic conditions and public vaccination drives. As a result of this, people have not been ravaged by disease physically like they used to.

Reduction in work-related stress

Further, the transition from manual labour to office-based work has reduced stress, a big contributor to curtailing the length of life.

Better food habits

As standard of living increases with increased consumption of nutritional foods/proteins, the flywheel effect towards better health has started moving faster.

Easy access to education

Education and access to information help people make lifestyle changes – such as stopping smoking, cutting out sugars, and exercising more.

It’s all these factors working together, including the compounding effect of the benefits that is propelling our longevity forward. This may plateau, but no one yet knows when, especially as the pace of innovation in healthcare and genetics keeps increasing – exponentially and unrelentingly.

EFFECTIVE TIPS TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST

It struck us that someone who is 50, once considered old, is in the prime of his life today – possibly a good 50 per cent of his adult life still remains. What can you do today, so that your remaining life can be active, productive and healthy? We will stay away from prescriptive answers (like calorie restrictive diets, green tea and exercise – all very helpful to live longer) and the attempt will be to help you change your outlook and your lifestyle.

Visualise your old age

Let’s start with visualizing yourself in your 80s or even 90s. Would you want to be independent both financially and in health? Would you want your mental faculties in peak form? Do you want to be contributing till the end? The answer to these questions will lead you to your favourable destination. And this can be on a multitude of dimensions – mobility@80 years, mind@80 years, BankBalance@80 years, etc

Work backwards

Working backwards, you will know what you need to do today. For example, if you want to climb the 3 flights of stairs with a grocery bag at 85, we suggest that you do the same today, and if you are out of breath and your knees hurt, you should seek medical advice and strengthen your muscles. Keeping a diary of your favourable destination analysis and the things-to-do is recommended – to keep you consistent and directionally correct.

The law of delayed gratification

Another broad tenet is important – coming from a simple long-term pre-nursery study that was undertaken mid last century. Kids were given, in an experiment, the option to get one cookie right now, or 2 cookies 15 minutes later. It was seen that the kids who waited, not only got more cookies, but eventually led a better life. This says that delayed gratification is immensely valuable for those who want to live to a strong and vibrant old age.

Inculcate the right habits

Decisions, small and largely insignificant today, will dictate your life 40 years from now. The best way to consistently work on the small actions is through habits. Small habits compounding over time.

Watch your food intake

There are people, who will say that it isn’t important to watch your food intake or your health today, especially as we will all die one day. But then, that one day is many years away for most of us, and yes, we may die in an accident tomorrow or waste away with cancer. But we live in a world, where probabilistic models work well to determine the future. And for most of us, it’s not the accident or cancer that will kill us but the ailments related to aging. How you want to go will be determined by not the gods of health, but the decisions and actions you took today.

(This article is authored by Prateep Sen and Tamojit Dutta, Co- CEOs, Tribeca Care, one of India’s largest elder care platforms)

Published : June 11, 2021 8:00 am | Updated:June 11, 2021 1:43 pm

Norris Burkes: Honoring The Flag With Fullest Respect

Flag Day is this coming Monday, so I encourage you to proudly and properly display our American flag on your front porch, stoop, or driveway.

As a retired Air Force chaplain, my view of proper display may differ from yours. But I do hope you will avoid the boorish examples of some I’ve seen lately.

For instance, I was taken aback to see a local real estate agent post the American flag in driveways with her business card attached. Adding to my surprise, the owner of an area landscaping company named after an assault rifle flew the flag from his pickup bed.

And who can forget the flags hung during this past election season trying to claim which candidate was the most patriotic. Worse to me was a church announcing their political slant by hanging a jumbo-size flag as a backdrop on their altar.

Again, I take a different view.

When I look at flags hung on America’s Main Street, my mind superimposes those covering the coffins of the many soldiers I’ve seen buried.

Flag-lined streets take me back to a particular veterans’ cemetery where I conducted services for the fallen. I began with the 23rd Psalm and concluded with a prayer. At that point, my chaplain assistant would bark, “Ah-ten-SHUN!” and cue the color guard to assemble.

Fifty yards away, a three-person detail would fire off 21 shots — a wartime custom once used to announce that the battlefield had been cleared of the dead and the fighting could resume.

Over the grave of the brave, a lone bugler would play taps and the vibrating melancholic tones strained the emotions of the most stoic.

On the last note, the honor guard responded like crisp marionettes strung by a master’s hand. They lifted each corner of the flag from the casket, snapping it so taut that it startled nearby mourners. They folded it twice lengthwise and then began a series of folds that transformed the flag into a tight triangle.

The officer affectionately placed three shell casings into the folded flag, each representing a volley. The folds were meant to conceal the blood-red stripes and leave nine shining stars exposed on the double-sided blue canvas. Thus folded, the implication is that God’s creation of stars and sky is the only thing to be treasured. The blood stripes, symbolizing the sacrifice of man, are minimized.

Custom required the sergeant to give the folded flag to an officer or chaplain where he or she knelt before the parent or spouse to present a wrinkle-less flag.

Whispered words spoken to next of kin were inaudible to those nearby: “This flag is presented on behalf of a grateful nation and the United States Army as a token of appreciation for your loved one’s honorable and faithful service.”

The funeral director dismissed the crowd, but a few people stopped briefly to lay a rose on the casket. Only selected family members who stayed heard the sobbing as funeral directors winched the casket into the grave, a few inches at a time.

So, when you display the American flag next Monday, I have a favor to ask. Imagine that same flag draping the bodies of 755 first responders killed on 9/11 and nearly 7,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen who have since died. Imagine the flag hanging from your porch covering the body of one of 791 police officers murdered in the 21st century.

Only when you consider the flag as the last blanket of the fallen can you give our flag its due honor and proudly sing as we did at those funerals:

O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Norris Burkes lives in Auburn.

One Year Later: Immokalee Teen Lives Life To Fullest Following Lengthy COVID-19 Battle

IMMOKALEE, Fla. – Next month marks one year since Immokalee’s Chantel Salas left North Naples Community Hospital following a lengthy battle with COVID-19.

Admitted on May 25, 2020, Salas, who was 17 at the time, fought COVID-19 for 54 days, and at one point, was even sent to a specialty care facility in Orlando.

Now fully recovered, Salas is living life to the fullest. She spends most of her time with family and friends, enjoying everything Southwest Florida has to offer.

However, the life she’s living right now may not have been possible if North Naples Community Hospital didn’t have one specific machine available when Salas was rushed into the emergency room last year.

“It was fairly evident that without the ECMO support, we were very concerned that she would actually not survive,” said Dr. Robert Pascotto, a thoracic surgeon at NCH.

Pascotto was on call on that evening in May. He remembers getting the call that a 17-year-old girl was being rushed into the ER with severe COVID-19 symptoms, including lung failure.

“I would say there was at least 12 people that were working on Chantel that night and getting her on the ECMO was at that time certainly considered to be a life-saving maneuver,” Pascotto said.

Within hours of arriving at the ER, Salas was placed on a portable ECMO machine to help support her lungs and heart.

“ECMO is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and essentially it can take over for the heart and lungs. It’s a miniature heart and lung machine,” said Pascotto.

While all of this was happening, Salas’ mother Erika said she was just arriving at the hospital and had no clue what was going on.

“As soon as I walked in, there was like so many doctors there and they told me she had COVID and that her lungs were really bad,” Erika said.

From there, she was told that her daughter needed to be placed on an ECMO machine in order to save her life.

“He told me this is the best thing we can do for now and we’ll go from there,” she said.

Salas was then taken to the specialty care facility in Orlando for patients who require indefinite ECMO support.

“I just said ‘do you think this is something that’s really going to work’ and they just kept telling me ‘we’re going to try our best’,” Erika said.

After 16 days in Central Florida, Erika got the news she’d been waiting for — her daughter was being transported back to NCH and her lungs were beginning to improve.

“You know I hear stories of people who have passed from COVID and it’s like wow, we were blessed to still have her here,” Erika said.

Thanks to the quick decisions made by all the doctors, including Pascotto, Salas survived COVID-19 and is now looking forward to the next chapter in her life –college.

“From her being in the hospital for you know quite awhile, she fell in love with being a nurse. She wants to be a nurse,” Erika said.