SOC375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reverse Mortgage, Absenteeism, Malcolm Cowley
18 Sep 2017
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When younger students reach middle age, their parents, uncles, aunts, etc. will have grown old. More people work with the elderly than ever before, and more will find themselves working with them in the future: large population of elderly people is expected to become even larger. Is not reserved for older people important for everyone to understand the elderly. Individual aging is affected by several different factors; aging is different for everyone (varies: as individuals age, society ages. Individual aging societal aging population aging: age and sex structure for grouping people; age and sex structure constitutes population aging, 3rd age- those that are supposed to (cid:271)e se(cid:374)iors, are(cid:374)"t; age has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) pushed do(cid:449)(cid:374) (ex. 60 is the new 40); 3rd age is the retirement, but people are living longer/retiring late (so now like 70-80+ rather than 65+) Studies show that many people hold incorrect views of aging (e(cid:454). the(cid:455)"re free loaders, take advantage of the health care systems, etc. )
