Blind Spots of the Successful Aging

Objectives: It was aimed to determine blind spots of the successful aging in this study.

Methods: This study was conducted in June 2019 with 44 elderly individual’s inpatients in a private hospital (24 females, 20 males; living in the province of Adana in Turkey; ages ranging between 65 to 89).

Results: In this study it was found that blind spots of the successful aging determined as lack of second eye (consultant, coach, family), knowledge sharing (Active social participation, family relations, loneliness), personality traits (Flexibility, introversion, self-confidence, self-respect, self-despair, self-possession, self-realization, self-determination, self-reliance, self-esteem), external effects (social isolation, illness, physical and psychological declines, legal barriers (social security politics), climate).

Conclusions: In the successful aging of the elderly, lack of second eye, knowledge sharing, personality traits, external effects were identified as blind spots.

Keywords: Bleeding disorder; Mode of delivery; Intracranial hemorrhage; Postpartum hemorrhage

Being a part of medical academics for the last two decades, while trying to build good human values within myself and my students, it has come to my notice often, that while human beings have shown utmost concern about endangering living species, we have never taken a look at our values and observed which values have literally become obsolete among us. If the fear of the almighty God would be nonexistent among humans, then the only thing that would direct and judge us is our conscience and our ability to refine consciousness. Since the two attributes are completely different in the scientific world, for a nonscientific person they are no different. While the term consciousness is actually a job of a human mind which receives and processes the received information while storing it after refinement, the human conscience is the fundamental ability of a healthy human being to perceive right from wrong, truth from falsehood, just from unjust, good from evil, fair from unfair, honesty from dishonesty and to some extent the choice of peace than war. In short, if one cannot draw the line between the two, he may be declared mentally unhealthy. While the last century saw startling violations by doctors whether it was in Russia (electro – shocking political dissidents), Germany (barbaric medical experiments on prisoners), United states of America (Tuskegee experiments), India (organ trafficking and abortion abuse), this century is witnessing medical violation and corruption in every format of medical practice.