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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Physiological and psychological characteristics of older persons and nursing With the rapid development of medical science, the increasing standard of living and growing awareness of care of the elderly, the elderly the disease is gradually reduced. An increasing growth in the average human life expectancy, the elderly in the community increasing proportion of the population , aged care and chronic care needs of elderly greatly increased, geriatrics and old age is gradually paid more attention to psychology. It is not only the elderly live longer, and the elderly in their lifetime physical and mental health, happiness and quality of life, dignity . 1, the physiological characteristics of the elderly Aging is an irresistible natural law of life, with age degenerative changes on the anatomy and physiology, resulting in the physiological functions of elderly people there were many obstacles and disease. Mainly as reduced mobility, hearing and eyesight weakened, memory and the will of the loss, declining immune function, decreased immunity, nutrient absorption is reduced, weakening the environmental balance, poor adaptability, and thus susceptible to disease, illness after infection easily, once the illness, longer duration, Recovery slow, poor efficacy, easy to repeat and so on. 1.1 The change of the respiratory system: the elderly respiratory muscle atrophy, thoracic deformation, hardening, lower compliance, respiratory rate and depth of the subject, the respiratory tract mucosa and muscle fiber atrophy, respiratory lumen expansion, dead space increases, the lung tissue atrophy, capillaries decreased alveolar thinning, elasticity loss, alveolar expansion, easy to form senile emphysema. Changes in the circulatory system 1.2: Old people, even in health, the heart tissue can produce significant degenerative changes. Such as cardiac muscle fibers decrease in adipose tissue increased. These are made less efficient