Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mandatory retirement was largely ended in Canada in December 2011, [147] but as of 2012 74% of Canadians still considered age discrimination to be a problem. [148] Retirement age for Canadian airline pilots is provided by each airline with some set to age 60, but changes to the Canadian Human Rights Act have restricted the retirement age set by ...
Hearing loss among the aged community lessens elders' ability to compensate for other age-related social and/or physical problems. [46] Communication problems of elderly adults can be greatly impacted by mechanical problems such as the translation of ideas into linguistic representation or expression, the perception of linguistic stimuli, or ...
Population ageing is a shift in the distribution of a country's population towards older ages and is usually reflected in an increase in the population's mean and median ages, a decline in the proportion of the population composed of children, and a rise in the proportion of the population composed of the elderly.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Old age, death, and frailty are closely linked, with approximately half the deaths in old age preceded by months or years of frailty. [128]: 3, 19 Older Adults' Views on Death is based on interviews with 109 people in the 70–90 age range, with a mean age of 80.7. Almost 20% of the people wanted to use whatever treatment that might postpone death.
Normal aging is associated with a decline in various memory abilities in many cognitive tasks; the phenomenon is known as age-related memory impairment (AMI) or age-associated memory impairment (AAMI). The ability to encode new memories of events or facts and working memory shows decline in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. [8]
In heterosexual sexual relationships, concepts of age disparity, including what defines an age disparity, have developed over time and vary among societies. Differences in age preferences for mates can stem from partner availability, gender roles, and evolutionary mating strategies, and age preferences in sexual partners may vary cross-culturally.
There is no conflict between saying the stakes are high and that Democrats should take Biden's age-related problems seriously, James Briggs writes.