History of Aging
An increase in years to our lives is enjoyed across socioeconomic divisions, genders, and races and has impacted the individual, the population and roles within families.
What is the Democratization of Aging?
China will soon face a family caregiving concern due to lack of family caregivers for Chinese Baby Boomers. This is due to this, implemented in 1980 to control Population growth in China.
What is the One Child Policy?
In the study of population, age and gender-stratified illustrations represent the distribution of both for a period of time. Worldwide and in many developing countries this model displays a wider base of 18-64 year olds supporting a smaller population of aging adults, explained by higher birth rates and mortality rates.
What is a population pyramid?
In addition to one’s activities of daily living to determine the ability to be independent and thrive when getting older, these abilities are more complex in nature and can include meal preparation, managing finances and paying bills, housekeeping, etc.
What are instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)?
Ageism can be defined as discriminating and stereotyping individuals based on their age. Public messaging about the vulnerability of individuals over age 60 and their need to shelter in place during the COVID-19 pandemic was disproportionate when compared to this group.
What are individuals with a pre-existing health condition?
Having a lower education level can increase the risk for having poor health later in life. In addition to education, these elements (which can include a person’s occupation, housing, and income) can impact health over the course of one’s lifetime.
What is socioeconomic status?
In the United States, the 65 and older population is projected to reach 83.7 million in the year 2050. How much of an increase in size will this be from 2012 according to the U.S. Census Bureau (2018).
What is double?
A study conducted in a senior living facility using field observations and surveys with residents found these two rooms in the home or facility to be the most common places for falls to occur
What is the bedroom and bathroom?
When studying the lifespan of individuals, one perspective in development relates to biological or environmental events (examples can include pandemics, war, economic depression, terrorist attack or advances in technology) which happen over time and can influence development. This is also described as the impact individuals experience differently based on their age when they were experiencing the historical occurrence.
What is history-graded influences?
This is the correlation between healthy aging and socioeconomic status. An example of this relationship might be “individuals with lower levels of household wealth were less likely to experience healthy aging than their more advantaged counterparts…”
What is Health-Wealth Gradient?
In the United States, the 65 and older population is projected to reach 83.7 million in the year 2050. How much of an increase in size will this be from 2012 according to the U.S. Census Bureau (2018).
What is a Demographic Transition?
In modern and classical texts, the gradual deterioration of the physical condition is often described using exaggerated characteristics like stooped posture, irregular gait and graying hair.
What is Senescence?
The Multigenerational family was a normal stage of family dynamic during this era of time, due to the low wages and benefits of younger generations working at home to tend to a family farm they would one day inherit.
What is The Pre-industrial Era?
Evolved from a concept introduced in the 1980s, this family dynamic describes baby boomers planning for their own retirement who find themselves responsible for dependent or adult children, as well as their longer living elderly parents.
What is the Senior Sandwiched Generation?
The Multigenerational family was a normal stage of family dynamic during this era of time, due to the low wages and benefits of younger generations working at home to tend to a family farm they would one day inherit.
What is The Pre-industrial Era?
In a study of older caregivers, researchers discovered that this socio-economic component has a significant impact on their health and feelings of contentment.
What is income?
Chronological aging, although useful for a broad mortality or life expectancy measurement does not address the great health heterogeneity of aging adults. In addition to the number of years, other health markers must be used to better determine an individual's mortality prediction.
What is biology of aging?
Aging adults employ a number of strategies to adjust to changes in physical and cognitive performance. Some housing scenarios offer more opportunity for safe and thoughtful implementation of an individual's unique ability to select, compensate and optimize for more graceful and successful transformations in aging.
What is the Baltes Model?
Many experts agree a baby born in the United States has a 50% chance of living to be 100 years old. The implication of this statement is that our population pyramid will continue in its barrel shape for the anticipated future with more older adults living longer lives.
What is Delayed Mortality?
This “idea” is defined as a higher order cognitive function that entails effortful forms of processing that binds details to form abstract meanings. This takes input from a wide array of input sources including auditory, visual, and other sensory modalities. Older adults with higher levels of this, are able to independently complete ADL’s (Activities of Daily Living) for a longer period of time
What is Gist Reasoning?