SOCI - 240. Growing Older in a Global Environment

Using the aging process in the United States as a beginning point, this course transcends national borders to explore aging in a variety of nations, delineated primarily by their economic level of development. Aging populations in these countries are examined on a multiplicity of levels that include demographic changes, health characteristics, family relationships as well as the economic and political implications of this process on the larger society.

Attribute: CFD, GLST, ILST, HSMR, LAS, SYUR, WEHE