HSS 3105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Population Pyramid, Health Promotion, Sub-Saharan Africa
14 Oct 2017
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Within the global context we drop the age to 60 years instead of 65. Supercentenarians are those that are 110+ years. Biological: looking at how well someones biological system is functioning ex. bood pressure. When it comes to hours seniors devote more hours to volunteering however, more younger people than seniors volunteers. Impaired aging: develop cancer, have a heart attack, depression. While developed countries have a higher . in the world live in developing. In developing countries the rate of fertility and mortality decline is much faster so their rate of pop aging with increase more rapidly. Will live in less developed regions of the world in 2050. Between 2010 and 2015 the life expectancy of the more developed regions of the world was 78 years and in the less developed regions of the world it was 68 years. In 1950 in the more developed regions the life expectancy was 65 and only 42 years in the less developed regions.
