HLSC 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Vital Capacity, Prescription Drug, Osteoporosis
8 Feb 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chapter 17- preparing for aging, dying and death. Aging: the patterns of life changes hat occur in a species, as they grow older. ** believed that true aging does not begin until we reach our 40"s. Gerontology: the study of individual and collective aging processes. 65 and over age group will unquestionably continue to be a major force of the social, political and economic plans of the nation because of there sheer numbers. The wear and tear theory: the human body wears out. The cellular theory: at birth we only have a certain number of usable cells. The autoimmune theory: attributes aging to the decline of. The genetic mutation theory: the number of cells exhibiting the body"s immunological system unusual or different characteristics increase with age. In the development model- it is said that people progress through eight critical stages during their lifetime.
