PSY 2114 Chapter 16-17: PSY2114 chapt 16 & 17

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2114
• Professor: Arne Stinchcombe

Document Summary

Chapter 15: the personal context of later life: physical, cognitive, and mental health. The demographics of aging: demographers: people who study population trends, population pyramid: graphic technique used by demographers to illustrate population trends! Implications of an increasing senior population:: seniors will wield considerable political and economic power, pressure will increase on pension system, health care, and other human services, the proportion of tax payers to retirees will change! Older adults are more often:: women than men, non-aboriginal than aboriginal, well educated, compared to in the past! The third and fourth age distinction: gerontology: the study of older adults, now a specialty focus in elds such as:, medicine, nursing, psychology ! Changes in the neurons: three structural changes in the neurons are most important in normal aging:, neuro brillary tangles, dendritic changes, neuritic plaques! The axon transmits info. inside a neuron from the dendrites to the terminal branches!