| Aging can be described
as growing older or exhibiting the effects of altering
age through bodily chemical processes. However,
the exact term of “aging” can be interpreted
in various meanings such as: universal aging, probabilistic
aging, chronological aging, social aging, biological
aging, proximal aging, and distal aging. Aging has
distinct classifications such as population aging.
Universal aging is the changes in ages which occur
in all people while probabilistic aging are changes
in age which may occur in few people but not all.
A common example of probabilistic aging is the effects
due to Type Two Diabetes.
Social Aging is the alterations in societal expectations
with time in the context of behaviors adopted
by older people. Biological aging is more or less
universal aging but it includes all sorts of physical
organisms. Other classifications or branches of
aging also include distal aging and proximal aging
which are also of similar context except the later
deals with causes of aging in recent past while
the first one deals with cause in early childhood.
Nonetheless, the simplest definition is of chronological
aging which refers to the exact age of a person
or how old that person is. Another aspect of aging
is the functional age which refers to the mental
and physical capacity of any individual. Aging
has prominent and significant impact on society
in terms of requirements and effects of those
requirements on the rest of the society. Population
aging is described as an increase in the number
of older people in any society.
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