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is the scientific study of the processes and phenomena of aging and growing old.
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| is the sociological sub field of gerontology which focuses on the social aspects of aging. Sociology focuses on the broad understanding of the experiences of people at specific ages, such as their health, their emotional and social wellness, and their quality of life, just to mention a few. |
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| is a person who has had his 100th birthday. |
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| is an ideal sequence of events and positions the average person is expected to experience as he/she matures and moves through life. Dependence and independence levels change over the life course. |
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is the value, respect, and reverence of one’s elderly which is often accompanied by care giving and support of the elderly. In Western countries, the elderly and their extended family are considered co-equals and mutually independent until circumstances necessitate assistance from children and other family members.
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| is the social, emotional, biological, intellectual, and spiritual processes associated with aging |
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| is prejudice against a person based on her chronological age. But ageism is a unique form of bias. |
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| claims that older adults maintain patterns in their later years which they had in their younger years |
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claims that the elderly benefit from high levels of activities, especially meaningful activities that help to replace lost life roles after retirement. The key to success in later-life is staying active and, by doing so, resist the social pressures that limit an older person’s world.[i]
[i]Google Robert Havighurst and Aging
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claims that elderly people realize the inevitability of death and begin to systematically disengage from their previous roles while society simultaneously disengages from the elderly person. This was the first formal aging theory that fell short of credibility because the scientific data did not support its assumptions. There is quite a bit of support for Continuity and Activity Theories.[i]
[i]See The Encyclopedia of Aging
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| claims that industrialization and modernization have lowered the power and influence which the elderly once had and that this has lead to much exclusion of the elderly from community roles. |
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| a measure of the number of live births per 1,000 people living in the population. |
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| a measure of the numbers of live births per 1,000 women aged 15-44. Both CBR and GFR show a pattern of birth rates that were relatively high when the World-At-War Generation was born. Birth rates declined with the Great Depression until 1946 (the commencement of the Baby Boom). |
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| represented a surge in birth rates from 1946-1964 and declined to pre-Boom rates in 1965. |
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| represents the children of the Baby Boomers born about 1964 to 1981 |
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"Millennials” which are born about 1981 to present.
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| is the average number of years a person born today may expect to live. The U.S. Life expectancy today is about 80 for females and 75 for males (worldwide it is 70 for females and 66 for males) |
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| is the number of males per 100 females in a given population. |
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| is a group of people who share a statistical or demographic trait such as the Baby Boomers born between 1946-1964. Nearly 8,000 Baby Boomers turned 60 each day in 2006. |
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| is the scientific study of death and dying. |
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| is the feeling of loss we experience after a death, disappointment, or tragedy |
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is a name for the circumstances and conditions that accompany grief. |
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