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Demography - Coggle Diagram
Demography
Perspectives on ageing
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Hockey + James - role of older people more decided by perception of age - meaning of age more disabling than physiological changes - infantalisation of old people - lose status of fully functioning adults
Lorraine Green - ageism sig increases issues elderly people face - infantalisation disabling - 1 in 10/50 65+ have been harmed by a carer or family member - younger women more likely to get breast screenings - less intensive attempts of resuccetation - institutional ageism
John Vincent - Disadvantages of older people linked to sgtructured dependency linking back to marxism Older people more liokely to be disadvantaged in a way that makes them dependent - Older people especially women/wc more likely to be poor Rich old people experience entirely different - socially structured inequality
Blaikie - old age can be a time of increased choice less limitations in life and more medical advances
Featherstone + Hepworth - recently life course has become deconstructed and unstable - increasingly rejecting chronological age in favour of personal age
Births
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First demographic transition - transition from poor to rich affluent society because of industrial revolution - lower infant mortality and less of an economic asset
Second demographic transition - Birth rates fall and become lower than death rates - Sub-replacement population fertility
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