PSYC 4072 Study Guide - Ageism, Double Jeopardy, Old Age
Document Summary
Demographics and cross cultural perspectives: overview, demographic trends and related issues. Broader social perspectives impacts just about everything since there are so many older people: ethnicity and cross cultural perspectives. Ethnicity involves race, nationality, and background: status of older people in traditional societies. Not modernized: status of older people in modern societies. Industrialized: demographic trends and related issues, increasing numbers of older adults today and in the future. In 1900"s: people > 65 only 4% of the us population and life expectancy was. 47: more agrarian, didn"t live as long, could safely ignore older people back then because the numbers weren"t as significant. Advances in medicine keep people alive longer get better help, so there"s a lessening of death. Also a drop in birth rates from then to now, so there are less number of young people being born and more older people living longer. In 2020: people > 65 will be 16% of the us population.
