[SOCI 1001] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (44 pages long)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Visible signs of aging affect our body image and self-image- We tend to see aging as a collection of losses. We expect as we age then we develop issues and pre existing conditions might get worse. Aging effects body and self image and it"s a collection of losses not gains. Life expectancy: the number of years the average person can expect to live. Has increased steadily in canada during twentieth 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. (cid:498)the greying population(cid:499) at some point we all want out body to freeze the aging. People are having less kids and living longer and this is called greying population. In canada people are expected to live till 80.