KINE 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elder Abuse, Humanitarian Crisis, Nuclear Family
3 Feb 2016
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Elderly in the world: world wide = 66. 6. Life expectancy: oldest/ tradi2onal measure of the health of country. Fasted growing segment is over 80s. Nutri2on, health style, health care, social services, pension. Canada = 81. 4; central africa = 50; afghanistan = 44. 1900- 1988: 47 75 in canada. Increase due to sanita2ons, vaccines, end of epidemics, an2bio2cs, nutri2on & housing improvements. 1988 - 2016: medical technology improvements. Increased life expectancy is good if life is not spent in morbidity. Healthy life expectancy: compression of morbidity. Fewer ppl living over 100 than claimed (pension scams) Healthy life style, sports, graphic smoking/ drinking ads. Social system, every old person is looked a]er. State of the world"s elderly. Ignored: heat waves in europe claimed many elderly (80% of deaths) Not a signi cant issue in canada bc of heat alerts, looking a]er elderly. India: adult children unwilling to take care of elderly, less nursing homes, Senior ci2zen"s act: must take care of elderly.
