SOC334H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Palliative Care, Multidisciplinary Approach, Content Analysis
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Introduction: three areas of gerontology study, biomedicine: looks at changes in health that come with age, eg. Causes of aging and age related illnesses like alzheimers and reaction time and stress: psychological studies: changes within individuals and between individuals and groups, eg. Memory learning, family and friendship ties and leisure activities done: socioeconomic-environmental: effects of aging on social structures such as healthcare and education, the one this course is focusing on, gerontology studies can be interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Interdisciplinary approach: large studies may include researchers from medicine, physiology, psychology, sociology, statistics, and economics. The overlapping areas of the diagram show where interdisciplinary work would be done: multidisciplinary approach: researchers from various fields work side by side and share a data set. But they may not integrate their findings into a new way of understanding a research question. But no one theory can explain all the facts about agin.
