PSYC 3402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Macular Degeneration, Orgasm, Retina
Document Summary
Migration patterns, extended family connections, and rates of smoking. Women have a higher life expectancy than men health attitudes, habits, lifestyles, and occupations. Men are more likely than women to die from most of the leading causes of death in the us cancer of the respiratory system, motor vehicle accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, emphysema, and heart disease. Women are more likely than men to die from alzheimers and some aspects of cardiovascular disease biological factors. Women have more resistance to infections and degenerative diseases longest average longevity in the us belongs to seventh day adventists. Centenarians: individuals 100 years and older in developed countries, the number of centenarians is increasing at 7% a year. The us has the most centenarians, then china, japan, and england supercentenarian: applied to individuals who live to be 110. The young-old and the oldest-old young-old: 65-84 yrs oldest-old: 85+ Mostly female - widowed and live alone, if not institutionalized.