Health Sciences 2711A/B Final: Overview and Demographic Shifts
25 Nov 2016
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Life stage (used to classify people into groups) Legal definition, of when a person becomes older - program eligibility (cpp) May not be useful anymore because our age span is increasing and our health status is changing. Observable attributes used to assign people to age categories. Broad age categories loosely based on ideas about effects of aging. Middle age - most people first become aware that physical aging has noticeably changed them. Later adulthood - declines in physical function and energy begin. Old age (late 70s - early 80s) - physical frailty, slower mentally and physically. Average number of years a member of an age category is expected to live given the base-year mortality rates: fertility, mortality, migration (birth, death, and moving around) Urbanization (increased cost of children in cities) Decline of family wage, increase in women"s labour force. Rectangularization of survival curves - increased survival and concentration of deaths around the mean age.
