GRN 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Public Health, Gerontophobia, The Population Bomb
12 Aug 2016
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Thinking about old age: the terms we use. Putting these three things together, will supposedly mean that you have aged successfully. Morbid fear or dislike or older persons. Robert n. butler, md came up with the term. A prejudice or discrimination against a particular age group and especially the elderly. Issues in employment, medicine, technology, housing etc. One of the most ageist groups of all is elderly people. Maximum age to which a person can live. Jean calment lived to be 122 years old. How long you can expect to live. Life expectancy has increased over the years to get closer to the lifespan age. Public health, medical technology and improvements in preventative care have all allowed the life expectancy age to increase. The population of the world in geometric proportions (very rapidly) while the food and other resources available would only increase in arithmetic proportions (at a slower rate than the population increases)
