The aging process is accompanied by many physical and behavioral changes:Ĭompared to younger cats, the immune system of older cats is less able to fend off foreign invaders. The key to making sure your senior cat has the healthiest and highest quality of life possible is to recognize and reduce factors that may be health risks, detect disease as early as possible, correct or delay the progression of disease, and improve or maintain the health of the body's systems. Even though many conditions that affect older cats are not correctable, they can often be controlled. Although many complex physical changes accompany advancing years, age in and of itself is not a disease.
Using this formula, a ten-year-old cat is similar age wise to a 53-year-old person, a 12-year-old cat to a 61-year-old person, and a 15-year-old cat to a person of 73.Īging is a natural process. For every year thereafter, each cat year is worth about four human years. In reality, a one-year-old cat is physiologically similar to a 16-year-old human, and a two-year-old cat is like a person of 21. The commonly held belief that every "cat year" is worth seven "human years" is not entirely accurate. Many cats begin to encounter age-related physical changes between seven and ten years of age, and most do so by the time they are 12. Just as people are living longer than they did in the past, cats are living longer too, and there is every reason to expect that the "graying" cat population will continue to grow.Ĭats are individuals and, like people, they experience advancing years in their own unique ways.
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