Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1121 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Elderly Are Uniformly Declining"
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The idea
Aging includes real physical change, but treating decline as uniform ignores the range of health, activity, and capacity within any group of older adults.
In practice
Two seventy-year-old job applicants, one training for triathlons and one requiring daily living assistance, can receive the same screening assumption from an employer.
Where people slip
Variation within the older population is as wide as variation within any younger one.
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