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16 Cards in this Set
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Varieties of Aging Experience: Social Class
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Key factor that effects later life. Unequal shares of power, wealth, and status. When we retire, people look to education for social class
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Varieties of Aging Experience: Racial Ethnic Group
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People who share a common identity, and whose members think of themselves as distinct from others by ancestry, culture, and some physical characteristics
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Varieties of Aging Experience: African Americans
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Largest older minority group
lower life expectancy than avg more chronic illness lower nursing home use Poverty higher than whites |
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Varieties of Aging Experience: Hispanics
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50% of older are Mex-Americans
15% Cuban-Amer 12% Puerto-Amer Women tend to be caregivers Language barriers for healthcare More poverty No access to Medicare or SS Eat healthier therefore live longer |
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Varieties of Aging Experience: Asian Americans
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1/4 Japanese, 1/4 Chinese
Religion leads to more care for parents Ancestry worship low nursing home usage |
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Varieties of Aging Experience: Native Americans
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Very high poverty
Most likely to never had a job High rates of poor health from inadequate resources Lowest cancer survival rate 3x higher death rate before 45yrs old |
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Gender Aging: Men/Women ration in 60's and 80's
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Late 60's 84 men to 100 women; Late 80's 41 men to 100 women
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Gender and Aging: Gay and Lesbian Older Adults
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Strong small network of people; Healthcare discrimination; Doctors don't understand their life history; No medicare unless heterosexual
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Economic Status: Social Security
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9/10 older people recieve; 20% rely on SS for everything
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Economic Status: Pensions
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Employer will give money back for working x number of years
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Deserving Poor
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financially dpendent for reasons beyond their control therefore deserved help
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Compassionate Ageism
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Were going to help the older adults who need it
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Supplemental Security Income
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Money for poorest of the poor, old, blind or disabled income
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Elderly as a Voting Block
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National level votes are even; local level can be biased due to a certain issue
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Generational Accounting
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Analyze how government tax and spending policies affect different cohorts.
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Apocalyptic Demography
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Belief that none of the aid will work and it will all run out
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