BIOL 1080 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 11-12 material: Bone Mineral, Mutationism, Intel 8089
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Redefining age: ageism: discrimination based on age, gerontology: the study of individual and collective aging processes; explores the reasons for aging and the ways in which people cope with and adapt to this process. Legal or chronological age: used to determine voting rights, driving privileges, drinking age: functional age: refers to the ways in which people compare to others of a similar age. Normal aging: 60-69 years = young-old, 70-79 years = middle old, 80-89 years = old-old, 90+ years = oldest-old, elde(cid:396)lies i(cid:374)(cid:272)ludes ages (cid:1010)(cid:1009)+. Will (cid:373)ake up (cid:1006)(cid:1004)% of ca(cid:374)ada"s populatio(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1007)(cid:1005) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of advances in medicine technology. Biological theories on aging: wear-and-tear theory; like everything else in the universe, human bodies wear out. Physical changes: physiological consequences of aging differ in their severity and timing from person to person, there are standard changes (which will be mentioned below)