SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intergenerational Equity, Savings Account, Old Age Security
7 Dec 2017
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Defining 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. Focus on old age or elderly born: subpopulation aged 65, demonstrate that canadian population is aging. Proportion of population aged 65+ is increasing: explore consequences of an aging population. *critical to recognize, immigrants tend to be relatively young. *mortality rates continue to drop, life expectancy always increasing. Who makes up the aged subpopulation: people aged 65+ (seniors) What characteristics of the aged subpopulation are of interest to those studying stratification: changes in the number of seniors, changes in the proportionate size of the aged subpopulation, changes in the composition of the aged subpopulation. Why do we need to understand changes in the composition of the older population: those aged 65+ are not a homogenous group, age, sex, marital status, living arrangements.
