HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Maximum Life Span, Centenarian, 2015 Fifa Women'S World Cup
4 Feb 2020
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Life expectancy: from birth, the average life expectancy, current average life expectancy in canada (2017) is 82 overall, 81 for men, 84 for women. Maximum life span: the maximum number of years a species can live, 120 years old. Measures of population aging (3: number of older people in the population, median age of older people in the population (40. 6, proportion of older people in the population. Increase in life expectancy: better standards of health care, infrastructures, etc, more advanced, richer, etc. Central challenges: most richer countries have pensions for older people, less rich lack resources and don"t have pensions, live longer, die in poverty. 2015 more people 65 and older than children 0-14: older population is increasing, and younger population is decreasing, result of decreased fertility. Eastern parts of country contain more, older people. Centenarian: a person who lives to or beyond 100 years of age.
