HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Geriatrics, Population Pyramid, Universal Health Care
15 Feb 2018
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Gerontology: gerontology is the study of aging. We look at how aging affects the society, and how societies affect aging: aging processes at the individual and population levels, gerontology is an interdisciplinary eld, such as biology, anthropology or psychology. Its important to note that gerontology is distinct from versus geriatrics: gerontologists are not medical practitioners, gerontology is a growing eld simply due to the fact that more and more people are growing into late adulthood. There have been dramatic improvements in sanitation, housing, education, and all of these has caused a steady decline in mortality. !1: in earlier times, people died more frequently due to communicable diseases, which. Thursday, february 15, 2018 isn"t as common anymore. As we moved closer to modern times, it is now at a fertility rate of less than 2. Some countries are aging at a faster rate than others, to say that developing countries age faster than developed countries.
