SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Registered Retirement Savings Plan, Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security
14 Dec 2016
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Define aging as a life course process: aging is a process of growing up and growing older from birth to death. What happens to someone depends in part on when that person was born. Life courses differ for different generations (baby boomers) Focus on old age or elderly (final stages of life course: subpopulation aged 65 and older (seniors, demonstrate that canadian population is aging (proportion of population aged. 65+ is increasing: e(cid:454)plo(cid:396)e the (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es of a(cid:374) agi(cid:374)g populatio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:449)hat the te(cid:454)t(cid:271)ook (cid:272)alls (cid:862)the g(cid:396)e(cid:455)i(cid:374)g of ca(cid:374)ada(cid:863)(cid:895) Demography: the scientific study of population. Processes of fertility, mortality, and migration how they affect. How many live born children the average women have. Fertility rate = average number of births per thousand women of childbearing age per year. Fertility rates have dropped majorly in the past 60 years. Very low fertility rate (if we wanted a replacement rate, we would need a fertility rate of 2. 1: mortality.
