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| Group of individuals born around the same time and have similar concerns, attitudes and ways of thinking |
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| Uses the macro-sociologist approach |
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| By studying generations, social scientists can see |
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| how dominate values and attitudes of different generations |
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| Different values and and attitudes may explain |
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| The challenges that the different generations have in communicating with each other |
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| Communications challenges may cause |
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| Social progress to be slow or difficult |
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| A commonly held view within a social group about what is right and wrong |
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| The influence of birth year on an individual's attitudes, values and views |
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| A group that shares certain statistical characteristics such as age |
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| Children of soldiers returning from WWII. When soldiers returned , they wanted to have a "normal life". |
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| Having a family was considered |
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| Influx of babies created a |
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| Boom has affected our culture in |
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Suburbia
Automobiles for commuting
Formula fed children
Advice from specialists instead of parents became popular
Increase of elementary and secondary schools |
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| Boom affected our society in |
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Vocal and visible counterculture just in sheer numbers
Hippies and protests
Music driven culture
Rebelled against authority and sexual and moral standards
Career women used the pill to plan when they wanted to have children
This basically ended the boom |
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| Presently, baby boomers are now |
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| Retiring and becoming part of the dependent workforce, which relies on workforce to care for them |
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| As baby boomers had less children |
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| There are less people to financially support them |
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| Baby boomers cause strain on economic system through |
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Health care costs
Extended life expectancy
Baby boomers not prepared for retirement due to poor stock market results in recent times and loss of jobs due to recession |
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| Baby boomers are having a difficult time finding work because |
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| They are older and technology is changing quickly |
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Were children of working parents
Independent and self-reliant type who tends to reject authority
Predicted to not be as successful as parents, because all the high paying jobs were taken by baby boomers |
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Were children of baby boomers
Lived entitled life because baby boomers wanted the best for them, thus they have a different work ethic
Large generation
Constantly plugged into technology
Attention craving and team-oriented |
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| Karl Manheim German Sociologist (1893 - 1947) |
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Felt that young people learn from their parents and people in community
They learn important values and care ideals and share these views
As a young person grows up and begins to experience events in society, they will view events differently than parents
As young people begin to mature, they begin to develop their own value system
Value systems tend not to match the other generations value systems but they will share those value systems with their cohort or generation |
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| Strauss-Howe Generational Theory |
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| American historians/demographers William Strauss (1947 - 2007) and Neil Howe (1951 - ?) observed cycle in generational values that repeated cycles, which have 4 universal symbols, which different generations cycle through |
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| Cycles begin when generation is in crisis |
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People join together to deal with huge social, economic or political view
Issues have the potential to radically change the social structure and institutions |
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| Changes that occur in adolescents are important |
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| In the process of long term social change |
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| People are influenced by many social groups and forces |
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| Scientific study of human populations, their size, structure and distribution |
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| Have identified different generations |
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| Demographers study statistics of different generation populations such as |
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Birth rates
Gender
Death Statistics
Disease
Marriages
Education
Race
Ethnic Origin
Religion |
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| The information provides help for |
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Governments
Businesses
Education Systems
Industries |
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Marks the end of childhood
Is the stage of life that starts at puberty
Begins the journey into adulthood |
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| Adolescence divides a family's growth in 6 stages |
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Between young families (young singles)
Beginning families (couples without children)
Rearing family (couple with young child(ren)
Family with teenagers
Family as launching centre (children leaving home)
Family in later life |
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| People were considered children until they became adults in |
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| Teenage years began to emmerge in society in |
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| Settlement Houses were created |
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| To keep teens of the streets |
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| Juvenile Homes were created |
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| For those who got in trouble |
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| The Canadian Government created the Juvenile Delinquents in |
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| Teenage culture appeared when teenagers had their own clothing styles, habits and cultures which was after |
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| Pulling away from parents on order to establish their own identity |
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| 5 Developmental tasks for teens |
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Understand and accept who they are
Make effective choices that help them mature
Develop mature relationship with others
Achieve responsibility and independence
Prepare for their career |
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| More rights to their teens and are allowed greater freedom and the ability to express their individuality |
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Smaller families
Older parents
Potentially divorced
Working outside the home
Indulgent parents |
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| People now market stuff to teens/kids |
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| As a way of increasing sales |
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| Considered "traditional family" or intact family |
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| A family made up of a father, mother and/or biological/adopted child(ren) |
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| In the Canadian Census 87.4% of families were |
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| Adoptive families are defined as |
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| When a nonbiological parent assumes permanent legal responsibility |
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| In the Children's Aid Society |
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| There were 18,668 children in their care |
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| 50% had become Crown Wards and only 9% were adopted |
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| Single parent family defined as |
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| A family that is headed by a solo caregiver of a dependent children who has been widowed, unmarried or separated/divorced |
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| 80% of single parent homes |
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| 16.3% of families are lone parented |
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| 210.8 out of 100,00 people were divorced |
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| 36 out of 100,000 people were divorced |
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| Defined as a home which includes 3 or more generations living in it |
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| Many families are returning |
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| The historically traditional setting of multigenerational homes |
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| In 2011, 4.8% of children lived with |
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| Grandparents as parents families |
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| Defined as families where the grandparents are the caregivers for children |
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| In 2011, 0.5% of children |
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| Lived with one or more grandparents |
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| Blended families/Step families |
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| Defined as families where at least one child birth or adoption happened before the current relationship |
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| In the 2011 census 7.4 of couples with children |
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| Were stepfamilies and 5.2% were complex |
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| Defined as a family where both parents are of the same gender |
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| In 2011, 0.8% of all couples |
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| With aging population, Canadian Government is looking at several crucial issues |
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Increasing life expectancy
Social support in home
Home ownership
Literacy
Source of income
Social activities and more |
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| As the younger generation will bear the burdens of large, retiring population, this will involved many social and financial concerns including |
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Economy
Workforce
Social program financing (i.e. pensions, healthcare) |
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| Provided by elderly persons close relations |
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| Parent to your parents and parent to your children; they help parents with medical, legal and financial issues |
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Nursing homes
Chronic care
Long-term care hospitals
Residences for senior citizens |
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| Additional forms of support |
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Adult day care
Independent living
Assisted living
Nursing homes
Continuing Care retirement community
Alzheimer's Care
Active Adult Communities (aka Senior Apartments) |
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| Medical Model of Healthcare |
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Most Canadians rely on
Model focuses on the treatment of injuries and diseases
Use of drug therapy, surgery and doctor control and supervision of healthcare decisions are central to this model
An expensive model |
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| Social Model of Healthcare |
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Focuses on keeping the elderly in their home
Use of more personal and family counseling, home care and adult day care programs as part of the whole system of caring for seniors
Model becomes more important as the senior requires more long term healthcare
Model less expensive method of healthcare |
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| Health Promotion Model of Healthcare |
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This method focuses on prevention through changes in the way a person lives their life
This model teaches people about healthy lifestyle and choices
Teaching of healthy lifestyle and choices
Teaching of healthy lifestyles can include clinics that monitor their health such as breast exam clinics, blood glucose clinics, etc.
Method works towards preventing healthcare concerns which will minimize the need for traditional healthcare system
System most cost effective |
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| An impariment of reality testing causing cognitive and/or behavioral disturbances and often manifested as delusions and/or hallucinations |
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| A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea |
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| A sensory perception of something that doesn't exist |
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| Up to 23% of older adults |
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| Will experience psychotic symptoms at some time |
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| Underlying effects of mental medical issues among the elderly are |
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Delirium
Dementia - Alzheimer Type
Alcohol
Parkinson's Disease
Side effects of medication |
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Sudden severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function
Changes in alertness, awareness, feelings and perception
Changes in movement(may be inactive)
Changes in sleep patterns, drowsiness
Decrease in short term memory and recall
Confusion, disrupted or wandering attention
Speech that doesn't make sense (incoherent)
emotional or personality changes
Often confused with depression |
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| Dementia - Alzheimer Type |
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| Hallucinations are very common |
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| When a person withdraws from alcohol |
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| Hallucinations are usually present after |
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| Age 40 and more common in males |
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| is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills, speech and other functions |
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| 4 Primary symptoms of Parkinson's Disease are |
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Tremor or trembling in hands, arms, legs, jaw, face
Rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and trunk
Slowness of movement and postural instability
Impaired balance and coordination |
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| Visual hallucinations occur in |
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