MENOPAUSE & AGING

Menopause & Aging



Abstract

In the life, of every woman at menopause is crucial as regards aging of the skin. Hormones that stimulate oil production from puberty until middle age, is decreasing progressively to disappear completely by the age of 70 or 80 different people. The film will be more hydro-lipid formed normally because of decreased secretion of sweat and sebum. Hormones whose levels decline with age no longer exercise their beneficent and stimulating the activity of fibroblasts, causing collagen and elastin fibrils support the skin coat. Some discomfort may be caused by lower estrogen and progesterone. Indeed, fibroblasts weaned estrogen may suddenly be responsible for the thinning of the skin but also the loss of elasticity. It can also sometimes see a pronounced dry skin. This paper talks about the menopause and aging and discuss that does it certainly occur in aging women.

Table of Content

Contents

Introduction4

How menopause relates to aging?4

Whether or not the condition is fact or fiction? Does it actually occur in aging women?7

References9

Menopause & Aging

Introduction

The study of the menopausal process cannot separate the process of aging in women. While it is true that menopause is experienced approximately between 45 and 55 years, is with her that women realize they are older. The median age is not only to women facing the changes physically, emotional and sociocultural characteristic of this stage, but also demand the realization of a retrospective review of critical and profound life experience. This development process not only allows women the opportunity to redirect their own sense of life, but rather forces them to confront the contradictions arising from the confrontation of needs for independence and assertiveness with family and work demands.

How menopause relates to aging?

The contribution of feminist scholars of the development process has allowed understanding the menopause as a natural phenomenon of women in the normal aging process. From this perspective, menopause is considered "as a time of transition in which as the ovarian hormone production is declining, periods are becoming more and more irregular until they stop completely" (GREENDALE 1999 67).With this explanation, the menopause as a natural process should then be passed quite unnoticed in the lives of women. However, it is not so for all Elias, because the experience of menopausal process has to do with "the meanings assigned to menopause are in every culture and directly influence the response of women to menopause, other people treat women who are experiencing menopause believe and also the type of health care that women receive at this time (GRODSTEIN 1997 67). Given this situation of life for women in their middle age, it is interesting to delve into the meanings that Costa Rican women, professionals and housewives case, assigned to menopause and aging, as well as how these concepts are crystallized in reality of life as menopausal women.

The compression of menopausal phenomenon, based on the actual experience of women not allow us to better understand female development, it offers women the possibility of menopausal experience with greater clarity and awareness of their own ...