Examples of aging in the following topics:
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- Middle age is the period of age beyond young adulthood but before the onset of old age.
- Census lists middle age as including people aged from 35 to 54, while developmental psychologist Erik Erikson argues that middle adulthood occurs from the age of 40 until 65.
- Middle-aged adults often show visible signs of aging such as the loss of skin elasticity and the graying of hair.
- However, people age at different rates and there can be significant differences between individuals of the same age.
- However, the majority of middle-age people in industrialized nations can expect to live into old age.
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- Human life is often divided into various age spans, like the following:
- In many countries, such as Sweden, adulthood legally begins at the age of eighteen.
- This is a major age milestone that is marked by significantly different attitudes toward the person who undergoes the transition.
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- Intrinsic and extrinsic aging describe cutaneous aging of the integumentary system primarily involving the dermis.
- Intrinsic aging and extrinsic aging are terms used to describe cutaneous aging of the skin and other parts of the integumentary system.
- As skin ages, it becomes thinner and more easily damaged.
- Because of this, extrinsic aging is often referred to as photoaging.
- Photodamage implies changes beyond those associated with aging alone.
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- With knowledge of this age structure, population growth can be more accurately predicted.
- For example, the population of a country with rapid growth has a triangle-shaped age structure with a greater proportion of younger individuals who are at or close to reproductive age.
- This results in a column-shaped age structure diagram with steeper sides.
- The leftmost diagram (representing the age structure of a rapidly-growing population) indicates that the number of individuals decreases rapidly with age.
- The slow-growth model shows that the proportion of individuals decreases steadily with age.
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- The social construction of aging entails the creation of social norms and symbols that encapsulates the aging process.
- Rather, cultures imbue youth and age with meanings.
- There is thus no such thing as a universal age for being considered old .
- Many Eastern societies associate old age with wisdom, so they value old age much more than their Western counterparts.
- Of course, interactions involving the perception of age must then vary by culture, as different cultures ascribe the notion of age with different values.
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- According to the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective, old age, and aging, are socially constructed and determined by symbols that resemble aging in social interactions.
- Rather, cultures imbue youth and age with particular meanings.
- Given the socially constructed nature of age, there are certain behaviors that people typically associate with certain age groups as being "appropriate" or "acceptable" .
- Many Eastern societies associate old age with wisdom and value old age much more than their Western counterparts.
- Given the socially constructed nature of age, there are certain behaviors that people typically associate with certain age groups as being "appropriate" or "acceptable. " Is this old woman challenging any conventional perceptions about how women of a certain age should behave?
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- While aging, itself, is a bio-social process, the ways people and cultures interpret ages (e.g., "old," "young," "mid-life") and the ways these interpretations are distinguished by varied biological age markers vary dramatically.
- In Western societies, where youth is highly valued, people are considered "old" at much younger ages than in Eastern societies where age is often seen to beget wisdom.
- This emphasis on youth translates into considerable expenditures on makeup, cosmetics, and surgeries to hide signs of aging, particularly among women, but also among men.
- The activities that are expected of one at different ages is also socially constructed and relative to culture.
- While age will eventually take its toll on everyone, the association of vigor with youth is a cultural construct and does not necessarily reflect the reality of biological aging.
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- They reported the mean household income and the median age of theatergoers.
- The distributions of income and age of theatergoers probably have positive skew.
- Therefore the mean is probably higher than the median, which results in higher income and lower age than if the median household income and mean age had been presented.
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- The pairs of ages in Table 1 are from a dataset consisting of 282 pairs of spousal ages, too many to make sense of from a table.
- Another example of information not available from the separate descriptions of husbands and wives' ages is the mean age of husbands with wives of a certain age.
- Finally, we do not know the relationship between the husband's age and the wife's age.
- The x-axis represents the age of the husband and the y-axis the age of the wife.
- Scatter plot showing wife's age as a function of husband's age
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- The city of Pittsburgh offers an intriguing case study of the effects of an aging population on a city.
- Chronological aging may also be distinguished from "social aging" (cultural age-expectations of how people should act as they grow older) and "biological aging" (an organism's physical state as it ages).
- Many societies in Western Europe and Japan have aging populations.
- While aging is often associated with declining health, current research suggests there are some things people can do to remain healthy longer into old age.
- Discuss the impact of aging on a person's life and the demand it places on health care