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How much is the elderly population growing?
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will double between now and 2030
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What is the maximum number of years that a person can live?
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human life span
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What hasn't changed since prehistoric times?
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human lifespan (120)
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Who is Emma Martina Luigia Morano?
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world's oldest living person 116 years and 282 days old Last living person to be verified as having been alive in the 19th century (born in 1899 in Italy and still lives there). |
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Who is Carmelo Flores Laura?
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Oldest living person ever documented at 123, baptism record says he was born in 1890 (died in 2014). Lived in a mountain in Bolivia in a hut with a dirt floor, was illiterate, spoke no Spanish and had no teeth. Walked without and cane and didn't wear glasses. New research says he was only 107. |
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Who was Jeanne Calment?
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oldest documented person to live (122 years, 164 days) Lived in France entire life. Met Vincent Van Gogh and remembers Eiffel Tower being built. Took up fencing at age 85 and was still riding bicycle at 100. Smoked until she was 117 and ascribed her longevity and youthful looks to olive oil. Drank port wine and ate almost a kilogram (2.2 lbs) of chocolate per week. |
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What happened when Jeanne Calment was 20? 40? 60? 121?
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first movie theatre in Paris (1895) Babe Ruth hits 1st HR (1915) Social Security beings (1935) Today's college seniors = 1 year old (1996) |
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What is life expectancy and how has it grown over the last century?
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number of years a person can expect to live 30+ years |
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Why has life expectancy increased? (4 examples) |
vaccines/improved medical care improved prevention fitness knowledge water purification |
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What are three concrete reasons people are living longer? |
improved medical care recognition that environment effects health people making smarter lifestyle decisions |
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Why are survivorship curves becoming rectangular?
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A greater proportion of people are living longer each year.
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When did global population skyrocket and when is it projected to level off? |
1800 2100 |
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What is the Malthusian Hypothesis?
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The populations of the world will increase in geometric proportions while the food resources available for them will increase only in arithmetic (linear) proportions.
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According to the Malthusian Hypothesis, where does carrying capacity occur?
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Where population and food production intersect.
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What did Malthusian claim would happen above the point of food production and population intersection?
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Anarchy (war and pestilence)
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Why do we fight wars?
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over resources
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What is pestilence?
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a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating (plague)
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What are three critiques about the Malthusian Hypothesis?
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Is the population going to continue to grow like that? Is food production going to remain constant? Ignoring technology. |
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What Anne H. Ehrlich & Paul R. Ehrlich write?
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The Population Bomb, said we were going to have starvation and war and pestilence in the 1970s and 1980s if we didn't change
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When was the Baby Boom?
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1946-1954
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What prompted Anne H. & Paul R. Ehrlich to write the Population Bomb?
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problems arising from the Baby Boom
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What is replacement population?
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number of births you need per couple (2.3 children/couple)
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What is the demographic transition model?
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Five stages: Phase I = less developed, high birthrates and death rates Phase II = development/industrialization begins, death rates fall, birthrates remain high because it's still normal in culture to have 12 kids Phase III = culture changing so birthrates drop Phase IV = death rate still steady but occasional baby booms Phase V = equal |
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What is fertility? |
how many children we're having
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What is mortality? |
how many people are dying
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What is a population pyramid in a Phase I country?
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base is young people, gets smaller and smaller as you go towards 100 (looks like triangle), females on right, men on left
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What is a population pyramid in Phase V countries? |
more rectangular with triangular peak at the top (projected to become more rectangular)
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What causes a population dip in the U.S. population pyramid?
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birth control came out
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What is elderly population growth?
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change in the number of older people
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How are the young-old, old-old, and oldest-old changing? |
each growing larger and larger
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How much did the population between 65 and 74 grow between 1900-2012? 75+? 85+?
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10x 17x 18x |
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What four states have the most older people and why?
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California New York Pennsylvania Illinois They have the most people in general. |
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What does aging in place cause? |
western states and southeastern coastal states to have fastest growing older populations
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What is elderly population concentration? |
proportion of a population that is elderly
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What is the demographic equation?
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P(t+n)=P(t1) + (B-D) + (I-O)
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What is the bathtub model?
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Water level is population. Add water via births and in-migration, drain via deaths and out-migration.
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What is natural change?
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births minus death
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What lowers elderly concentration in an area?
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increasing fertility
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What increases elderly concentration in an area? |
decreasing mortality
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What is an example of aging in place?
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elderly parents staying in same home they raised family in
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What does aging in place do to elderly concentration? |
increases, until they die in place
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What besides fertility and mortality affects elderly concentration?
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in- and out-migration of elderly and non-elderly
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What is an advantage of in-migration of the non-elderly? |
tax-base increases, able to support older people
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What was "a demographic tsunami?"
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Baby Boomers
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What percentage of the population were baby boomers in 2000?
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29.43%
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By what year will the baby boomers be excreted according to the Pig Through a Python model?
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2050
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What are five challenges and opportunities because of the Baby Boomers? |
Addressing labor force changes Providing and paying for appropriate models of long-term care Creating environments conducive to an aging population Redefining the experience of aging: the third age Reconciling and transitioning from current old age to new-age-old-age |
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What are five other issues with the Baby Boomers?
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We'll have to pay more taxes and work longer More long-term care, which is costly Healthcare job demand Perceptions will change (Example: clothing makers will make more clothing for older people) Job openings because the Baby Boomers are going to retire, or the reverse: less jobs for younger people because Baby Boomers didn't save enough for retirement |
