HLTH201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Baby Talk, Ageism, Intergenerational Equity
1 May 2015
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Three reasons why we should know about aging: all of us are getting old, when younger students reach middle age, our parents, uncles, aunts will have grown old. If we know about aging, we can help live them live the best old age possible: more people work with elderly than ever before. In 2005, canada had 4. 2 million people aged 65 and over. 65 and over is considered to be old. Social structures: a relatively stable pattern of social interactions: example- the family, the education system, and the health care system. All these structures will change as canadian society changes. Gerontology: the discipline that studies aging systematically: 2 purposes: it looks at how aging affects the individual and how an aging population will change the society. Prejudice: being biased against someone or something; a negative judgment formed beforehand without knowledge of the facts.
