Biology
Megen Clarke
As time goes on its inevitable that a human or animals age, there is no stopping time on a human’s body. It is the build-up of changes in a person over time. With humans, aging is referred to as a multidimensional procedure of physical, social and psychological transformation. In some dimensions, aging it grow and expand over time, whereas in others, it may decline. An example of this is reaction time; it may slow with age while information of world events and knowledge may increase. Even later in life, study has shown that there is potential for physical, mental, and social development. It is important for aging to happen because it is a vital part of human societies reflecting the biological changes. Aging …show more content…
There can be various types of terms for aging; universal aging, probabilistic aging, chronological aging, biological aging, proximal aging, distal aging, and population aging. Aging is very ambiguous. With universal aging, it is the age change that everyone shares. Whereas, with probabilistic aging happens with age changing occurring within some people as they growing older but not all. Things like type two diabetes can happen in this process. Chronological aging can also be called social aging which is the maturity level expectation of people as they grow older. Biological aging, an organism’s physical state as it grows older. Proximal aging is the age based effects that comes because of influences in the recent past. Distal aging can be traced back in the early stages of someone’s life, such as childhood poliomyelitis can be found. Chronological age and functional age cannot coordinate together because someone age can be different from their mental or physical capacities. With population aging, it’s the growth in number and percentage of older people in society. Three possible causes of population aging could be relocation, longer life expectancy or decreased birth