PSY BEH 101D Lecture 8: Midlife/Old Age—Why should you care?
12 Sep 2017
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1 out of 5 (or more) people over 65: grain of the world, due to healthcare (e. g. inoculations), stagnating birthing population, etc. Japan: 1950 population pyramid, lots of kids in the beginning, whittling away to less people at the top. The compression of morbidity paradigm: hypothesis that states we can decrease the amount of time you"re sick at the end of your life, delaying chronic illness for as long as possible. Physical vs. functional health: absence of disease vs, can you, walk a quarter of a mile, walk up a flight of stairs, stand or sit for two hours, bathing oneself, transferring, feeding. Primary and secondary aging conditions: primary: change in fat tissue distribution, thinning hair, secondary: joint pain, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Biologic theories: divisions: nonstochastic: view aging as certain predetermined, timed phenomena, theories, programmed theory, hayflick limit, based on lab experiments on cells and their reproductive capabilities in.
