Sociology Now, Census Update
healthy lifestyles experience decline mostly as a state of mind, an increasing aware- ness that they have passed the midway poin ...
In earlier generations, parents hoped that they would live long enough to see their children marry. Today they often live to see ...
people over age 65 will produce an “age-quake” with simi- lar radical social transformations. The projected increase of the popu ...
358 CHAPTER 11AGE: FROM YOUNG TO OLD from living to see middle age. Things are getting higher and lower, better and worse at the ...
■Losing mental abilities.Alzheimers is one of several different root causes of senility, a gradual or sudden loss of cognitive f ...
In the United States, the leading causes of death are heart disease, cancer, stroke, and emphysema. These diseases are rare amon ...
cohort, women have a similar discrepancy: 0.67 for Asians, 1.26 for Whites, 2.24 for Native Americans, and 2.75 for African Amer ...
burial, perhaps signaling some belief in an afterlife. Bodies are prepared for some type of removal from the world of the living ...
anecdotes, and inability to chew his food or control his bodily functions. The par- ents on Lostand 24 are not only intrusive, t ...
magazine bestowed the honor of “sexiest man alive” on Harry Hamlin, age 36. In 2004, the honor went to Jude Law, age 32; in 2005 ...
France (84 percent), Canada (85 percent), or Australia (100 percent) but higher than Japan (21 percent). Today, the number of co ...
However, the idea of retirement as an abrupt transition from work to leisure belongs to the past. Today it is hard to determine ...
Few have siblings to help out (31 percent believe that caregiving has increased family tension). They are “squeezed from all sid ...
The first boomers hit middle age around 1980, and America shifted its emphasis again, from adolescence to middle age. A new era ...
Although they are often derided as slackers and whiners, gen-Xers really are worse off economically than their boomer parents. T ...
Boomers could choose from a few dozen magazines on news- stands and subscribe to a few hundred more; generation Y can access tho ...
increased life expectancy, until in 2050 it will be about 20 percent worldwide (Population Reference Bureau, 2007; U.S. Census B ...
(65 percent of registered voters aged 65 to 74 voted in the 2002 congressional elections, and 72 percent in the 2000 presidentia ...
cover the cost of childbirth, maternity and paternity leaves, and day care or babysitting services, and provide a small monthly ...
jobs. Twenty-eight percent of White teenagers worked during the school year and 38 percent during the summer, a significantly la ...
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