The old people tempt to "heavily invest their knowledge and other resources on their descendants.
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2.What is really the purpose of senior center?
The purpose of the senior center is to provide plans for old people to continue growing and improving in the future days they have.
3.What would happened if the elder mortality rate increase?
The increased of death rates will slow down the population growth.
4.Would it take up more space for the old people who died if they choose burial? Burial vs. Cremation?
Burial take up more ground space than cremation. However, cremation emits carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide...etc. that actually harms the environment,too.
Old people actually can contribute to the economic and "it shows that older people’s paid work is worth £201 billion each year, while unpaid contributions in the form of caring, volunteering and grand parenting are worth £24 billion".
6.What activities/hobbies are common for old people?
The most common activities/hobbies for old people are knitting, sitting in front of the television, and gardening.
The most common activities/hobbies for old people are knitting, sitting in front of the television, and gardening.
7.How active are elderly people in the community?
A lot of elders are being kept in nursing homes when they gets old, but some of them are still active in the community even there are over 85% of old folks have more than one chronic conditions.
8.What's the suicide rate for elderly people?
"In 2000, suicide rates ranged from 12.6 per 100,000 among persons aged 65 to 74, to 17.7 per 100,000 persons aged 75 to 84, which is nearly double the overall US rate." The common reason is that the old people did not receive the treatments they need which caused them attempt to suicide.
9.What percent of old people are widows?
For females that are 65 or older, there were 81% are widows. For males, that were 13 to 14 % are widows. (1980 to 1999)
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10.How many old people know how to use today's modern technology?
"Facebook’s 35-54 year old demographic segment not only continued to grow the fastest, but it accelerated to a 276.4% growth rate over the past 6 months."2009 Facebook demographics and statistics report
"Facebook’s 35-54 year old demographic segment not only continued to grow the fastest, but it accelerated to a 276.4% growth rate over the past 6 months."
11.What percent of old people are social active?
"National data indicate that few older persons engage in regular physical activity. Only 31 percent of individuals aged 65 to 74 report participating in 20 minutes of moderate physical activity 3 or more days per week, and even fewer (16 percent) report 30 minutes of moderate activity 5 or more days per week (U.S. HHS, 2000). For those aged 75 and older, levels of activity are even lower: 23 percent engage in moderate activity for 20 minutes 3 or more days per week and only 12 percent participate in such activity for 30 minutes 5 or more days per week."
12.How do old people spend their money?
Old people usually spend their money on health care, inter generational transfers of money, gifts for family and friends, travel, maintaining home, leisure, new interest, and renewing household items.
Old people usually spend their money on health care, inter generational transfers of money, gifts for family and friends, travel, maintaining home, leisure, new interest, and renewing household items.
13. What percent of old people in prison?
"Recent statistics indicate that middle-aged and older people already represent the fastest growing age group in prison, giving rise to predictions that costly correctional nursing homes for ill or frail older prisoners may soon become commonplace."
14.What is the population rate of old people in the United States?
"The United States saw a rapid growth in its elderly population during the 20th century. The number of Americans aged 65 and older climbed above 34.9 million in 2000, compared with 3.1 million in 1900. For the same years, the ratio of elderly Americans to the total population jumped from 1 in 25 to 1 in 8. The trend is guaranteed to continue in the coming century as the baby-boom generation grows older. Between 1990 and 2020, the population aged 65 to 74 is projected to grow 74%."
"The United States saw a rapid growth in its elderly population during the 20th century. The number of Americans aged 65 and older climbed above 34.9 million in 2000, compared with 3.1 million in 1900. For the same years, the ratio of elderly Americans to the total population jumped from 1 in 25 to 1 in 8. The trend is guaranteed to continue in the coming century as the baby-boom generation grows older. Between 1990 and 2020, the population aged 65 to 74 is projected to grow 74%."
15.How many old people still work?
"Labour participation among older people rose in all age categories up to 65 years in the period 1997-2002. The increase was largest for the age group 55-59 years, where the proportion of people with paid work rose from 42 to 54 percent. Labour participation rates for the over-65s remained low in this period."
After doing this research, it deepen my understanding of old people. It suprised me when I noticed that the old people still be able to contribute to the society and helps the economic. More important, I noticed that old people tempt to "heavily invest" their "property" to the next generation. Although this is not obvious appealing to the society, but it is actually the biggest contribution to the society since they are giving a hand to the other. Spite the fact that they usually invest on their own descendants, the old people do play a role as giving a hand to the others. If the old people did not do anything or contribute anything when they are young in the society, there is possibility of us do not have a better life condition or not even exist. This makes me think of the "real meaning of life" might be just giving what you have to the others, passing it to the next. The fact that we cannot bring what we have with us when we died, the things that we left are really just for the next generation.
Looking at the things that the old people actually can do when they are old, it is more often to seen as very limited. A lot of the elders avoid social interactions with the others and they barely have social activities. Most the things they can do is walking, watching tv, gardening, or knitting. When people get old, the things or hobbies that they have are really the things that fill in the times that they have in their life. Some old people are still working and doing unpaid jobs to contribute to the society and some old people are even trying to fit into the now a day society play facebook or using technology. As an old people, they can still do a lot of things and even contribute to the next person. I saw people defined death as "complex personal and social phenomenon, which has substantial influence on person's life and life of the other people who can be influenced by the person's death." Perhaps when people gets old, life is meaningless that they cannot do as much things as they can do when they are young and thinking no difference between a nursing home and a jail. But it seems like there are always meaning for old people to live. As thinking about the human life cycle, when people died, and eventually turn into ashes back to the ground, to live really seems like is to passing what you have to the next.
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Wow, your question and answer part was really eye opening. Very interesting and I had nooo idea about some of them.
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