SOCIAL

GERENTOLOGY
PRESENTED BY; FATIMA FAROOQ
20-ARID-995, B.
TYPES OF
GERENTOLOGY
HISTORICAL
DEVELOPMENT
WHAT EXACTLY IS
OLD AGE?
SOCIAL ROLES AND
AGE
FUNCTIONAL AGE
FUNCTIONAL
CAPACITY
CLASSIFICATION
SUBJECTIVE AGE
WHAT WILL BE THE
TRUE DEFINITION
OF OLD AGE?
SUCCESFUL AGING
MOST IMPORTANT AND WILDLY APPLIED IN GERENTOLOGY
FACTORS OF
SUCCESSFUL
AGING • PHYSICAL HEALTH
• COGNITIVE
FUNCTIONING
• ADEQUATE SOCIAL
RESOURCES.
AGEISM
FORMS OF AGEISM
STEREOTYPE
AGE
DISCRIMINATION
PRESPECTIVES ON
AGING HISTORICAL
•
• BIOLOGICAL
• SOCIOLOGICAL
• PSYCOLOGICAL
• SOCIAL GERENTOLOGICAL
• LIFE COURSE PRESPECTIVE
• CROSS-CULTURE PRESPECTIVE
1. HISTORICAL
PRESPECTIVES
2. BIOLOGICAL
PRESPECTIVE
3. SOCIOLOGICAL
PRESPECTIVE
4. PSYCOLOGICAL
PRESPECTIVE
5. SOCIAL
GERENTOLOGICAL
PRESPECTIVE.
6.LIFE COURSE
PRESPECTIVE
7.CROSS CULTURAL
PRESPECTIVE
SOCIOLOGY AND
AGING
ANTHOPOLOGY
AND AGING
GEROPSYCOLOGY
DEMOGRAPHY
AND AGING
SOURCES OF DATA:
1. CENSUS
2. PAKISTAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS
3. LABOUR FORCE SURVEY
4. HOUSEHOLD INTEGRATED ECONOMIC SERVICE
5. PAKISTAN INTEGRATED HOUSEHOLD SURVICE
6. PAKISTAN DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY
HISTORY OF
POPULATION CENSUS
IN PAKISTAN
DATA SOURCES
INTERNATIONAL
1. US CENSUS BUREAU
2. THE OFFICE FOR NATIONAL SATISTICS UK
3. WORLD BAND GROUP
4. EUROSTAT
5. INTERNATIONAL MONTARORY FUND
6. ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COORPORATION AND
DEVELOPMENT AID
7. UN COMTRADE DATABASE
METHODOLOGY
VITAL STATISTICS
INDIVIDUAL AGING
PROCESS
INDIVIDUAL AGING IS MEASURED THROUGH:
1. LIFE SPAN
2. LIFE EXPECTANCY
LIFE EXPECTANCY
AND GENDER
DIFFERENCE
SEX RATIO
POPULATION
AGING
POPULATION AGE STRUCTURE CAN
CHANGE THROUGH 3 FUNDAMENTAL
DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES.
1. FERTILITY
2. MORTALITY
3. MIGRATION
POPULATION
PYRAMIDS
DEMOGRAPHIC
TRANSITION
STAGES OF DEMOGRAPHIC
TRANSITION
• FIRST- PRE INDUSTRIAL
STAGE
• SECOND-
TRANSITIONAL AGE
• THIRD- INDUSTRIAL
STAGE
INTERNATIONA
L VARIATION IN
AGING
POPULATION THE RATIO OF OLD PEOPLE
DEPENDENCY RATIO

TO ADULTS IS CALLED
ELDERLY DEPENDENCY
RATIO.
WHAT IS FAMILY?
CHARACTERISTICS
OF FAIMILY
• A GROUP OF PERSONS UNITED BY TIES OF
MARRAGE.
• BLOOD OR ADOPTION.
• CONSTITUTING A SINGLE HOUSEHOLD.
• INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER IN THEIR
RESPECTIVE SOCIAL POSITIONS
TYPES OF FAMILIES
1. NUCLEAR FAMILY
2. EXTENDED FAMILY
3. JOINT EXTENDED FAMILY
SOCIAL SUPPORT
Q. WHOM DO YOU SEE ON DAILY
BASIS?
Q. WHOM WOULD YOU CALL IF YOU
WERE SICK?
Q. HOW ABOUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE
BLUES.
CONVOY MODEL
OF SOCIAL
RELATION
QUALITY VS
QUANTITY
CHARACT
-ERISTICS 1. AGE
2. RELATIONSHIP
OF 3. SEX
SOCIAL 4. GEOGRAPHICAL
PROXIMITY
SUPPORT 5. NO. OF YEARS KNOWN
SYSTEM
GENDER
DIFFERENCES IN
SUPPORT SYSTEM
FAMILY
STRUCTURE AND
SOCIAL SUPPORT
SYSTEM
Q. WHAT IS AN EMPTY
NEST ?
BOOMERANG
BEAN POLE FAMILY
STRUCTURE
MARITAL STATUS
IN LATER LIFE.