HLTH202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Centenarian, Supercentenarian, Blood Sugar
13 Apr 2016
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Hlth 201 - lecture 5 - september 28th, 2015. Categorizing people by their stage and age in life: life stage, chronological age, functional age, biological age. Life stage: broad social category, related to social roles (physical changes, more fluid than to chronological age ranges. Chronological age: simplest assessment of age, determines social roles (drinking/driving age, defines the stage of working life an individual is (retirement, common terms for age groupings. Biological age: the rate of aging in humans is not uniform, biomarkers of aging are used to help target interventions to prevent age-related diseases. Also a straw was added to experience how it feels like to breathe with a lower lung capacity. Society uses age as a way to transition people into and out of roles. Changes in personality, mental functioning and sense of self. Some changes are result from physiological changes in brain function loss of cognitive functioning is not an inevitable result of aging.
