FRHD 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gerontology, Population Ageing, Geriatrics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3060
• Professor: Jacobi Elliott

Document Summary

Social gerontology crosses disciplinary boundaries process of aging (regarding status and behaviours: multidisciplinary, people from different disciplines working on similar issues, potentially in a collaborative effort. In multidisciplinary research, researchers work in parallel or sequentially to address common problem: interdisciplinary, people from different disciplines working collaboratively on an issue. In interdisciplinary research, researchers work jointly but each from purely their own perspective, to address a common problem: furthermore, interdisciplinary encourages synthesis and a better holistic understanding. Psychological aging: cognitive changes and development with age as well as mental health in older age, theories include, stage / phase theories (ontogenetic models, view life as stable and predictable, hierarchy, stages are universals, intentional, irrev. Basic terminology: age stratifications, the hierarchal ranking of people into age groups, cohort, a group of people were born at about the same time and who experience a.