Demographic Perspective on the Study of Aging

Demography is a field of study that has proven to be useful for the study of agingAging and health. It uses population characteristics, such as distribution, size, change, and composition. This chapter focuses on demography in the study of agingAging and provides an overview of traditional and new concepts, sources of informationInformation, population projections, prospectiveProspective scenarios, mortality and health analysis, and the importance of studying households and families in the context of population agingPopulation aging.