GERO 14029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Susannah Mushatt Jones, Leading Edge, Social Insurance
29 Apr 2016
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Gerontology: interdisciplinary scientific study of aging and the aging process: relatively new discipline. Geriatrics: study of the diseases of the elderly. Perceived age: age you think of yourself as. Psychological age: functioning of psychological abilities: ex. About 120 years old but it is 80. Jeanne calment of france was one of only two humans to have lived to age. 120: believed by some scientists to be the limit of human life. Increased life expectancy due to: reduction in acute diseases, medical and public health advances, reduction in infant mortality, reduction in female mortality at childbirth, treatment advances in chronic diseases, medical and lifestyle, awareness. Life expectancy: the number of years that will probably be lived by the average person born in a given year. Ave. life expectancy is 78 years: female: 80, male: 75. Related to: gender (women more likely to go to drs. , genetics (extra x chromosomes tend to b protected)
