GERO 300- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Canadian homes use psychotropic medication no more than those in other countries, but physical restraint of residents is more frequent in. Canada: apocalyptic demography: age brings about illness; the treatment of illness incurs fiscal cost; population aging brings about an expectation of escalating cost, attitudes: a tendency to evaluate an object w/ some degree of favor or disfavor. Represents a fleeting or enduring tendency to positively or negatively evaluate an object: target: person who experiences the object. May or may not be true, it does not convey an evaluation: old people does not cause more traffic fatalities than younger people. The canadian age structure is getting older: gerontology: the study of aging & the aged. Population aging is central to gerontology: 3 common measures of population aging: percentage aged 65+, median age, & dependency ratios, percentage aged 65+: most common measure.
