Discuss primary and secondary aging and how age interacts with social class
What will be an ideal response?
Primary aging is the underlying, inevitable aging process, and secondary aging is the product of environmental influences, health habits, or disease; secondary aging is neither inevitable nor experienced by all adults. With increasing age, the differences become much larger—social class differences in adult health have been found in all of the developed world, and they occur within ethnic groups in the U.S. as well as in the overall population.
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