FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Old Age Security, Knitting

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Tuuli Kukkonen

Document Summary

Chapter 8 notes: grey power and the sunset years. Chronological age chronological age: the number of years a person has lived. Median retirement age is dropping for number of reasons: government lowered the age at which one could draw benefits from the canadian. Pension improved private pension plans: growing popularity of rrsp"s, economic cutbacks and layoffs. Before establishment of pension plans, most people worked as long as they could: after this may have to become dependent on children or charity. Psychological age: a frame of mind and may be shown through old behaviour such as. The aging of canada sociologists are beginning to describe individuals as young-old (65-74 years), middle-old (75-84 years), and the fastest-growing age group old-old (85 years and over) Erikson describes the psychosocial task of old age as integrity versus despair as individuals look back on their lives, they look for order and meaning; without sense of meaning, the individual sinks into despair.