Health Sciences 2711A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Japanese Americans, Dementia, Early 1970

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2711A/B
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

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Health science 2711 lecture 6: social aspects of aging. Looks at interrelationships between levels and how they affect the individual: development is about the interaction between levels. Life course perspective: according to the life course perspective, norms, roles and attitudes a(cid:271)out age help to shape the perso(cid:374)"s life. Longitudinal what happens to someone as they age over time: and the influences that they experience over time that help guide them in aging, what kinds of expectations we have. Aging what happens over time (life events, life transitions: historical life events, what is happening outside will affect us. Personal decisions: we make decisions for ourselves. Individual opportunities: opportunities will be influenced by where we were born, what kind of family we were raised in, sexual orientation, etc. these will all affect our individual opportunities. E(cid:373)phasizes the (cid:449)a(cid:455)s i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h people"s lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s i(cid:374) the follo(cid:449)i(cid:374)g shape their e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of old age: