BIOL 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Paul Baltes, Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography, Functional Neuroimaging
10 Apr 2018
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Lecture 1: why study adult development and aging. Gerontology: the study of aging from maturity through old age (there are myths for aging) The life-span perspective divides human development into 2 phases: an early phase (childhood and adolescence, a later phase (young adulthood, middle age, and old age) Baltes argued that life-span development consists of dynamic interactions between: growth, maintenance, loss regulation. There is an age-related reduction in the amount and quality of biologically based resources as people grow older. There is an age-related increase in the amount and quality of culture needed to generate continuously higher growth. There is an age-related decline in the ef ciency with which cultural resources are used. There is a lack of cultural old age friends support structures. There have never been as many older adults in industrialized countries as there are now. Numbers increased dramatically during the 20th century because of better health care and lowering of women"s mortality during childbirth.
