Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter 4: The Lives of Older People and Changing Social Roles
31 Jan 2017
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The lives of older people and changing social roles. Structural lag age structure of social role opportunities has not kept pace with rapid changes in the ways people grow old. Regardless of age, like to think of healthy old, some people of any age can be health and still be able to function effective. Generic category of old people essentially heterogeneous. Aging process ---- chronological age has little meaning. Doctrine of inevitable aging decline is a fallacy, initiated by faulty interpretation of biological data, and despite all evidence to the contrary, its still widely accepted, not only by professional practitioner and public at large, but even scholars. Inner sanctum of health, stereotype of inevitable decline remains stubborn. Vast majority are reasonably well and are able to function independently and effectively. Findings show that most symptoms attributed to aging are actually from disease. Common theme is that older person"s functioning is dependent on social conditions.
