HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Baby Boomers, Geriatrics, Universal Health Care
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Goals: gerontology, the demography of aging, how we can better care for aging canadians, successful aging. Gerontology: the study of aging & aging process at the indvl & population levels, an interdisciplinary field. Biology, anthropology, humanities, public policy, economics, sociology, psychology, public health & more. From thinking about how to build infrastructure to thinking about to design clothes who have arthritic fingers. Total fertility rate= the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime. Worldwide: in the 1950s on average there is an avg of children born to a woman. In developed countries such as canada: number was fewer. In less developed countries have more children bc need help with manual labour. Replacement rate is 2 bc biologically need 2 ppl to make a child. In canada, fewer children under 15 than there are ppl 65+ I(cid:374) o(cid:374)e day of (cid:271)ody rest (cid:272)a(cid:374) lose (cid:1009)% of (cid:271)ody"s fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g.
