Many sources provide us with stereotypes of older adults…. Quantitative vs Qualitative Analysis Quant: Proportion of older adults in media = to population Qual: Look at content Portrayals (positive, neutral, negative) Print Media: Birthday Cards Electronic Media: TV, Advertisments
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Many sources provide us with stereotypes of older adults….
Quantitative vs Qualitative Analysis
Quant: Proportion of older adults in media = to populationQual: Look at content Portrayals (positive, neutral,
Gerontologystudy of all aspects of aging and its consequences
Geriatricssubdivision of medicine that is concerned with old age and its diseases
Senescencechanges in structure and function of an organism that can be observed after sexual maturation; a deteriorative change that causes an increase in mortality with age
SenilityThe endpoint of senescence
Life Expectancy average length of life from birth
Maximum Life Span Potentiallongest life an individual can live
Terms you need to know…
Approaching the end of the geological cycle of erosion
biggie!!!
• Greek Mythology:
• Aurora (goddess of the dawn) + Tithonus (Trojan)
Was made to never die…forgot the details….AGING!
Cursed to live forever…gray hair etc…lock up in a room babbling…changed him into a cicada…his babbling…grasshopper….
Pandora’s Box: plagues, disease & Old Age were release!!!
Began with Prometheus…
“Innate Heat” theory of why we age Hippocrates (4th century BC):•heat the most significant life factor•born with a fixed quantity of heat•with aging heat diminishes – natural course of events
Aristotle (4th century BC):•twist on theory…fire essential •same thing as with heat •aging, or through violence or disease, always leading to death
Galen (AD 130-200):•The first to characterize aging as a process beginning with conception•added the elements of blood and semen to the life forces which he viewed as sources of tissue generation •Development a process of drying…aging = too much drying
History of Aging(Greek Philosophers )
Cicero (106-43 B.C)•Roman orator and politician
“Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.”
“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth”
Roger Bacon (c. 1220-1292)•Franciscan friar•English philosopher•Oxford professor
•Old age could be warted off bu:eating a controlled dietproper restexercisemoderation in lifestylegood hygieneinhaling the breath of a young virgin(Kind David…sleeping between 2 virgins)