Social gerontological Research

As stated in Part One, the state-to-state statistical information of the elderly populations is important in determining the distribution of federal funding as well as the administration of federal programs (p. 22). Additionally, as it was pointed out in Chapter 1, growth in both numbers and proportions of older people requires the modification of both public and private policies for employment, retirement, healthcare, long-term care and other social services in an attempt to improve the quality of life people who are living longer (p. 37).

One of the areas of increased modification, for example, has been in the provision of transportation, or the increase of public transportation in some areas, to agencies that offer services to the elderly. As pointed out in Chapter 11, a large

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technologies, ability for a person to adapt as they age, and whether adaptability to new technologies would alter or increase brain activity and interaction enough to delay such problems as mental confusion and memory loss. 4) Contrary to the popular myth about the respected elder in pre-industrial society, older people did not always have the care and respect that is assumed was given to them. What must first be understood is that prior to industrialization, life expectancy was often 35 years old, or 50, at the oldest. So an elder in a community could be 40 or 50 years old, as opposed to the concept of the ancient wizened 80 year old individual that is assumed existed. Additionally, while there may have been respect given to these young-olds, as soon as they became too old to be of use to the community, they were either denigrated, killed outright, or went off to die alone so that they would no longer be a burden to their families or their villages. In studying this disparity between respect and denigration, researchers have found that there are many factors that may influence the different social status of older people in different societies at the same stage of modernization. For example, in the Colonial United States
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