This interdisciplinary course examines the economic, cultural and social stresses resulting from a dramatic increase in average life expectancy and an aging population in Canada. Drawing on scholarship from areas such as biology, public health economics, gender studies, anthropology, and sociology, students will look at cross-cultural attitudes towards aging and elderly persons, and the search for meaning in late life.
This interdisciplinary course examines the economic, cultural and social stresses resulting from a dramatic increase in average life expectancy and an aging population in Canada. Drawing on scholarship from areas such as biology, public health economics, gender studies, anthropology, and sociology, students will look at cross-cultural attitudes towards aging and elderly persons, and the search for meaning in late life.
