GRT 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Prescribing, Generation, A Generation
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Life course and life span perspectives: factors in uencing healthy aging. The diversity seen in older age is not random. A large part arises from people"s physical and social environments and the impact of these environments on their opportunities and health behaviour. The relationship we have with our environments is skewed by personal characteristics such as the family we were born into, our sex and our ethnicity, leading to inequalities in health. A signi cant proportion of the diversity in older age is due to the cumulative impact of these health inequities across the life course. So much of where you are today depends on the in uence of your parents. Where you are born into has a lot to do with how healthy you will be. Cumulative advantage: the process whereby individuals who have early opportunities for success (e. g. better life chances) most often build on that success to perpetuate their advantage later in life.