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HLTC22H3 : Lecture notes & text book incorporated study guide

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orchidmule362
1 Dec 2010
School
UTSC
Department
Health Studies
Course
HLTC22H3
Professor
Anna Walsh

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There has been a dramatic change in population demographics in the last century that continues to provide ongoing challenges for health care providers to provide adequate services to the increasing number of older adults in the world. As people continue to age and as the baby boomers hit age 65, we know we are going to have a problem. Many people will live longer, healthier lives and some may decide to continue working. Unfortunately many people in the 80"s and 90"s will require new, innovative strategies to support them. Sandwich generation: have to take care of their kids and their elderly parents. Europe is the oldest continent in the world and canada in 1996, 9% of people were 65+. By 2001, this number is going to increase or double. In canada the foreign born population is older than the native one. In 1996, 18% of immigrants were 65+, compared to 11% of canadian born.

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