PSYC 353 Lecture 7: 2014-09-22
19 Oct 2015
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Life expectancy is not universal, humans can live to 120 or 100 if they have good genetics and good lifestyle. Active life expectancy: living the max life expectancy and living independently. Dependent life expectancy: living the max life expectancy but living dependent on others. Gender differences: men marry younger women and men age faster. Compression of mortality: goal is to die later in life at the end of human life span. Compression of morbidity: the goal is to get detrimental illness right before you die instead of earlier in the life and it is on-going (long length of time) Biological aging process: primary aging: universal physical aging normative aging, secondary aging: not universal, non- normative, this is a result of a particular disease or illness that will affect your aging experience. A: we want to slow down this aging experience, and we want to live life longer in a healthy way.
