From 1946 through 1960, the United States experienced the Baby Boom years. During that time the fertility rate was higher and more babies were born. Today, the earlier Baby Boomers are entering into retirement age. Because of this there will be an increase in the aging population. While retirement will be a dream come true, ...
Seniors in San Francisco have many good programs to choose from. San Francisco Recreation & Park Senior Programs The city’s Parks Department offers a lot of recreational and social programs for adults 55 and older. The Golden Gate Park Senior Center, at Fulton and 37th Avenue, offers dance, bingo, arts and crafts, card games, special ...
Age norms are seemingly inevitable, even when we try to turn away from age-behavior associations, we clearly all have ideal ages in which behaviors are expected. Age norms “serve to open up or close off the roles that people of a given chronological age can play” (Hooyman, Kiyak, 2002). One can see examples of age ...
Graduates with a degree in gerontology have achieved skills and abilities that allow them to work among a clientèle that just keeps growing in numbers. In the last fifty years our national population has experienced a population explosion among senior citizens as well as in the number of careers now open to graduates with a ...
