1. Aging
    • The combination of biological, psychological, and social processes that affect people as they grow older.
  2. Alzheimer’s Disease
    • The progressive deterioration of brain cells that is the primary cause of dementia in old age.
  3. Birth Cohort
    • Broad generalizations about people who are assumed to have traits common to every single member of that category.
  4. Graying
    • The name given for an increase in the proportion of the population becoming elderly.
  5. Social Age
    • The norms, values, and roles that are culturally associated with a particular chronological age.
  6. Social Gerontology
    • A discipline concerned with the study of the social aspects of aging.

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