Generations
This is the generation born between 1997 – 2012
Who are Gen Z?
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well‐being.
What is health?
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?
The average number of years of life remaining for people born within a similar period of time.
What is life expectancy?
This is the generation born between 1981 – 1996
Who are Millennials?
This measurement has no one set formula for calculation but looks at a person’s highest level of education and the prestige level of their occupation. Having a lower level 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?
The maximum age for a given species.
What is lifespan?
This is the generation born between 1965 – 1980
Who are Gen X?
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?
These events occur for everyone within a certain culture or geopolitical unit (regardless of age) and include large‐scale occurrences such as world wars, economic trends, or sociocultural changes in attitudes and values.
What are normative history‐graded influences?
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 generation born between 1946 – 1964
Who are Baby Boomers?
This identity factor may include ancestral origin, homeland, a shared history, language, religion, or culture.
What is ethnicity?
73.6% Canadians aged 18 to 34 have a regular health care provider 92.0%; Canadians aged 65 and older have a regular health care provider.
Access to care
The illness burden on society can be reduced if people become disabled closer to the time of their death
What is compression morbidity?
The differences in outlooks, habits, opinions and behaviours between age cohorts.
What is the generation gap?
The age of an individual’s bodily systems.
What is biological aging?
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 is an index of income inequality which has been significantly more stable in Canada since the 1990's compared to the United States
What is the Gini coefficient?