Aging impacts on the individuals immunity.
a) Discuss how poor skin integrity due to the drying and cracking of the skin as we age may effect Mrs Jones health and wellbeing?
Please consider whole body skin integrity Please discuss in more detail how poor skin integrity (drying and cracking) as we age might affect Mrs Jones health and wellbeing, what physiological events occur,
A. Maintaining moist and supple skin is a requirement for the prevention of lymphoedema. Increasing age is accompanied by drying skin due to aging skin. Failure of maintenance skin with increasing age may result to dry and cracking skin that may be a risk factor for the development of lymphoedema (Breast Cancer Network Australia,2020).
Discuss how poor skin integrity due to the drying and cracking of the skin as we age may effect Mrs Jones health and wellbeing.
