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This course serves to provide foundational knowledge of the physical changes that accompany the natural aging process in addition to changes that accompany pathologies and/or disease processes related to the advancement of age. While highlighting general perspectives and theories on aging, the course outlines the usual and expected changes to each system of the body specifically in the years following sexual maturity and throughout older adulthood. In addition, aging with lifelong disabilities, special topics to consider in relation to aging, health promotion and exercise, nutrition, medications, caregiving, and death and grief in the later years are discussed in detail.