PSY 3128 Lecture 1: PSY3128 Lecture 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3128
• Professor: Vanessa Taler

Document Summary

What is aging: aging begins at birth, senescence: the final stage(s) of the normal lifespan, senescence is typically what we think of about aging. Defined at 65 yo +; the geographical and cultural differences between societies and how that affects the proportion of older adults. What do we study aging: practical reasons: importance of older adults to society and family, quality of life, understanding psychological, social, biological changes that occur with age can lead to better outcomes in aging. Immigration policy bringing in workers from elsewhere. Increased wages as people age, their healthcare costs go up (cid:862)i(cid:374) spite of the high (cid:272)ost of li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g, it"s still popular. (cid:863) kathleen thompson norris. Methods of getting rid of older adults: neglecting the elderly, abandoning them, encouraging suicide, killing them. Conditions: nomadic hunter gatherer societies people are physically incapable of walking. In traditional so(cid:272)ieties, there"s a greater i(cid:374)tegratio(cid:374) of older adults i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iety; older adults are more of a burden in modern societies.