FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pension, Old Age Security, Chronic Condition
29 May 2018
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THE SUNSET YEARS
• dimensions of old age
o groups
▪ young old
• 65-74
▪ old
• 75-84
▪ old old
• 85 and over
o aspects
▪ chronological
• number of years a person has lived
o Canada
▪ Senior = 65 and over
• Pension
• Annual driving test
▪ Senior = retirement?
• Then why do we become old sooner now
than in the past
o Being old is a state of mind
▪ physical
• changes
o white hair, wrinkles, slow movement
▪ affect
• self perception
• how others treat us
• self esteem
▪ senior = when physical disability sets in
• many 70 and 80 year olds = excluded
▪ rowe and kahn
• lifestyle factors affect physical aging
• successful aging involves
o low disease probability
o high cognitive and physical
functional capacity
o active life engagement
▪ psychological
• frame of mind
o knitting, rocking chair
▪ attitudes different than young?
• Cohort effects
o Raised during historical events
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o Influenced by earlier values
▪ social
• how society says we should act and interact
o expectations are shifting
▪ b/c timing of marker events is shifting
o sex and class differences
▪ men
• professional
o gray hair=distinction
• manual labour
o gray hair=sign of failing ability
▪ women
• reduced physical attractiveness=reduced
self esteem
o all
▪ connected to social time clock
• sense of age range when certain life events are supposed to
happen
• developmental tasks of old age
o main task
▪ accept shift of roles to allow next generation to take over
• involves
o job
o moral and practical help
o adapt to own decline
o accept others/own death
o psychosocial task
▪ integrity vs despair
• divided into 2 phases
o early 70s
▪ review
▪ give back
o late 70s
▪ reflect
▪ celebrate
o some issues
▪ conflict
• independence vs dependence
o satisfaction related to control they have
▪ stress
• tasks change
• roles change
▪ areas for control
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• finances
• condition
▪ homeownership
• pros
o maintain independence
o less likely to be institutionalized
• government help
o grants
o homemaker and home nursing
services
▪ husband wife relationship
• most difficult adjustment
o nursing home
▪ institutionalized=anger,
resentment, depression
▪ other=relief and guilt
▪ social perception
• old people=dependent
• connectedness vs seperateness
o conflict like adolescent parent conflict
▪ value relationships
▪ also wish to maintain own lifestyle
o as one gets older conflict increases
▪ children become afraid
▪ limit independence
• openness vs privateness
o fear disapproval
▪ incontinence
• personal health problems
▪ ostomies
• pee bag
o prefer help from
▪ stranger
o if cared for by relative or living in nursing home
▪ private life impossible
• shared rooms and bathrooms
• aging in Canada
o statistics
▪ 65 and older
• 2006
o 13.7%
• 2011
o 14.8%
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