HLTHAGE 1BB3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Acculturation, Glycation, Cognitive Training
6 Oct 2017
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Week 1 myths, stereotypes, and cultural images of aging. It looks at the subject from two points of view: how aging affects the individual and how an aging population will change society. The thieves send an email that appears to come from a bank or a major online business like amazon. Reality: most seniors (91 percent of women and 95 percent of men) live in private households. Ro(cid:271)e(cid:396)t butler, the first director on of the national institute of aging, coined the term. Ageism: ageis(cid:373): refers to prejudice against older people, butler says that ageism comes about because the young and the middle-aged feel distaste for aging. They see old age as a time of weakness, sickness, and dying: through language, humour, and various fo(cid:396)(cid:373)s of (cid:373)edia, pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ula(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:271)ooks a(cid:374)d tele(cid:448)isio(cid:374)(cid:863) children begin to hold negative views toward older adults as early as age five. By age eight these views have become firmly set.
