Aspects of Old Age in Age-Specific Mortality Rates

Autor:	W. R. Bytheway
Rok vydání:	1970
Předmět:	Ageing Mortality rate Age specific mortality Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine General Social Sciences Social isolation medicine.symptom Psychology Standard procedure Demography
Zdroj:	Journal of Biosocial Science. 2:337-349
ISSN:	1469-7599 0021-9320
DOI:	10.1017/s0021932000000183
Popis:	SummaryAge-specific mortality rates have been used to illustrate certain aspects of the characteristics of old age. A consideration of the experience of the ageing person in his fifties and early sixties suggests that during this period he comes to recognize death as being an increasingly common characteristic of his age group. Thus the standard procedure for studying old age problems in a sample of people over the age of 65 may miss the period of life when people are making the crucial adjustments to old age and may give a distorted view of some gerontological problems. Certain demographic aspects of old age are considered in detail with regard to the occurrence of, first, widowhood and, second, social isolation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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