Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Healthy Diet, Social Insurance, Baby Boom
26 Feb 2016
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Aging begins long before physical signs become obvious. Indicators of aging: chronological age, functional capacity. Life stage used to classify people into groups. Used to determine eligibility for programs: e. g. Remains dominant as the legal definition of when a person becomes older". Observable individual attributes to assign people to age categories. Life stages are broad age categories loosely based on ideas about effects on aging. Middle age when most people first become aware that physical aging has noticeably changed them. Later adulthood when declines in physical functioning and energy availability begin. Old age begins around late 70s to early 80s characterized by physical frailty, slower mental processes, activity restrictions. Life span the theoretical limit on the length of life: 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. Life expectancy in ontario and bc very similar.
