PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Physical Therapy, Health Promotion, Podiatry
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Life expectancy: number of years the average person can expect to live. Has increased steadily in canada during the 20th century. Canadians can also expect to live longer after age 65 than generations before them. Increased life expectancy into old age is distinguished from previous historical period: Never before in history did vast majority of people in a particular country expect to live to old age. Main reason for increasing proportion of seniors is due to decreases in fertility . With declines in number and proportion of children in population, proportion of older persons necessarily increases. Fertility was major predictor of population aging until population reached life expectancy at birth of 70 years, at which point almost all young persons survive: Further declines in mortality now concentrated at older ages, resulting in relatively larger older age groups. How the lives of elderly people are experienced is influenced by social construction of old age (i. e. , how society views elderly people).
