Perceptions of the Human Life-Span: A Cross-National Approach

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-65
Author(s):  
Gail A. Jaquish ◽  
Richard E. Ripple ◽  
Stephan Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Perceptions Of Aging ◽  
Human Life Span

Perceptions of aging were obtained from three age groups: adolescents, young adults, and adults. Male and female Americans and South Africans ranging in age from 15 to 40 years provided words to describe eight age decades of the human life-span. Responses were coded for positive, neutral, and negative perceptions of the eight age-stages. A repeated measures analysis of variance tested for differing patterns of responses between the age and national groups. Main effects for nation, age group, and age-stage were significant. An absence of significant interactions suggested that the developmental pattern of perceptions of age-stages across the human life-span was comparable in the two nation states. The three age groups expressed similar perceptions of aging, although adults viewed aging more positively than did adolescents and young adults.

scholarly journals The Future of Human Longevity

Gerontology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 524-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid A. Gavrilov ◽  
Vyacheslav N. Krut'ko ◽  
Natalia S. Gavrilova
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Human Longevity ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Extend Life Span ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Life Span

Recent scientific publications suggest that human longevity records stopped increasing. Our finding that the mortality of centenarians has not decreased noticeably in recent decades (despite a significant mortality decline in younger age groups) is consistent with this suggestion. However, there is no convincing evidence that we have reached the limit of human life span. The future of human longevity is not fixed and will depend on human efforts to extend life span.

scholarly journals The core of determining changes in human life span is to resist fatal diseases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
yong ping huang
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medical Progress ◽  
The Core ◽  
Death Data ◽  
Human Life Span

Abstract: In the global death population, more than 90% of the population died due to illness. In different years, different countries, different incomes, different genders and different age groups, the situation is the same (except very few). Death data show that the life span of the vast majority of human population depends entirely on the ability to resist fatal diseases. In the nearly 300 years since the industrial revolution, the ability to resist deadly diseases has greatly improved, which has brought about a multiple increase in the overall life span of human beings, without exception in all countries of the world. Rapid social development brings medical progress, a large number of drugs against deadly diseases came out continuously, the continuous development of public health and the continuous improvement of population nutrition brought about by economic development... Together, these factors promote human resistance to deadly diseases, and will also promote the next round of life span leap.

scholarly journals The core of determining changes in human life span is to resist fatal diseases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
yong ping huang
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Medical Progress ◽  
The Core ◽  
Death Data ◽  
Human Life Span

Abstract: In the global death population, more than 90% of the population died due to illness. In different years, different countries, different incomes, different genders and different age groups, the situation is the same (except very few). Death data show that the life span of the vast majority of human population depends entirely on the ability to resist fatal diseases. In the nearly 300 years since the industrial revolution, the ability to resist deadly diseases has greatly improved, which has brought about a multiple increase in the overall life span of human beings, without exception in all countries of the world. Rapid social development brings medical progress, a large number of drugs against deadly diseases came out continuously, the continuous development of public health and the continuous improvement of population nutrition brought about by economic development... Together, these factors promote human resistance to deadly diseases, and will also promote the next round of life span leap.

Women and Elderly Parents: Moral Controversy in an Aging Society

Hypatia ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Post
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Very Old ◽  
Aging Parents ◽  
Large Margin ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Aging Society ◽  
Women Philosophers ◽  
Human Life Span

The human life span has been extended considerably, and among the very old, women outnumber men by a large margin. Thus, the aging society cannot be adequately addressed without taking into account the experience of women in specific. This article focuses on women as caregivers for aging parents. It critically assesses what some women philosophers are saying about the basis and limits of these caregiving duties.

scholarly journals Genomics and human life span—what's left to extend?

10.1038/85611 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Strohman
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Life Span
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