FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sandwich Generation, Psychological Abuse, Implicit Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Shayna Skakoon- Sparling

Document Summary

Population aging: (or the population"s age structure) a population is old" when it contains a large portion of elderly people. Individual aging: the biological, physiological, psychological, and social changes that occur over the life cycle. 3 components that effect the aging of population: mortality rates, fertility/birth rates, migration (within country aka internally or between countries aka externally) When at least 10% of the population is over 65 the population is considered old. Can also look at the median age of a population. They are interested in the age of a population because this will affect the need for specific types of social supports and resources and can help to inform poly-makers on where to allocate resources based on need. Can roughly tell us the proportion of dependency in a population as well as where the majority of that dependency is located (young or old)