Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Population Ageing, Baby Boom, Social Insurance
26 Mar 2017
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De ning aging: aging begins long before the physical signs become obvious. Used to determine eligibility for programs (e. g. , canada pension: remains dominant as the legal de nition of when a person becomes older", proxy for life experience and physical functioning insuf cient. Life stages are broad age categories loosely based on ideas about effects on aging: middle age when most people rst become aware that physical aging has noticeably changed them getting married and having kids. Later adulthood when declines in physical functioning and energy availability begin. Moving towards retirement: old age begins around late 70s to early 80s characterized by physical frailty, slower mental processes, activity restrictions. Withdrawing fro things you used to do. Life span the theoretical limit on the length of life: max 115-120 years. Life expectancy average number of years a member of an age category is expected to live given the base-year mortality rates.
