 |
|
| |
|
|
|
at Global Oneness Community.
Share your dreams and let others help you with the interpretation!
Dream Sharing Forum
|
|
Ageing - Dividing the lifespan | | Ageing - Dividing the lifespan: Encyclopedia II - Ageing - Dividing the lifespan | | A human life is often arbitrarily divided into various ages. Because biological changes are slow moving and vary from person to person arbitrary dates are usually set to mark periods of human life. In some cultures the divisions given below are quite varied.
In the USA and other countries, adulthood legally begins at the age of eighteen or nineteen, while old age is considered to begin at age sixty-five.
Infancy
Toddler
Childhood
Preteen
Adolescence
Young adult
Adult ...
See also:Ageing, Ageing - Senescence: the biology of ageing, Ageing - Dividing the lifespan, Ageing - Age and the law, Ageing - Economics and marketing of ageing, Ageing - Cultural variations, Ageing - Global ageing trends, Ageing - Reference | | | Ageing, Ageing - Age and the law, Ageing - Cultural variations, Ageing - Dividing the lifespan, Ageing - Economics and marketing of ageing, Ageing - Global ageing trends, Ageing - Reference, Ageing - Senescence: the biology of ageing, Ageing barrel, Aging brain, Ageism, Age fabrication, American Aging Association, Life extension, Over the hill, Senescence | | |
| | | Ageing: Encyclopedia II - Ageing - Dividing the lifespan
Ageing - Dividing the lifespan
A human life is often arbitrarily divided into various ages. Because biological changes are slow moving and vary from person to person arbitrary dates are usually set to mark periods of human life. In some cultures the divisions given below are quite varied.
In the USA and other countries, adulthood legally begins at the age of eighteen or nineteen, while old age is considered to begin at age sixty-five.
- Infancy
- Toddler
- Childhood
- Preteen
- Adolescence
- Young adult
- Adulthood
- Middle age
- Old age
Ages can also be divided by decade:
- Quadragenarian: someone between 40 and 49 years of age
- Quinquagenarian: someone between 50 and 59 years of age
- Sexagenarian: someone between 60 and 69 years of age
- Septuagenarian: someone between 70 and 79 years of age
- Octogenarian: someone between 80 and 89 years of age
- Nonagenarian: someone between 90 and 99 years of age
- Centenarian: someone between 100 and 109 years of age
- Supercentenarian: someone over 110 years of age
See also Seven ages of man for an older system of dividing the human life.
Other related archivesAdolescence, Adulthood, Age fabrication, Ageing barrel, Ageism, Aging brain, American Aging Association, Centenarian, Childhood, Infancy, Life extension, Middle age, Movies, Old age, Over the hill, Preteen, Senescence, Seven ages of man, Supercentenarian, Television, Toddler, Young adult, actions, adulthood, age of consent, age of criminal responsibility, age of majority, ageing population, biogerontologists, biology, birthday, cosmetic surgery, courts, crime, cultural, death, defence, defendant, disease, drinking age, dyeing hair, economic, gerontology, homeostatic, jurisprudence, juveniles, law, liable, lifetime income tax, make-up, mandatory retirement age, marriageable age, motion picture rating system, old age, prosecution, senescence, social, stress, voting age, years
 Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Dividing the lifespan", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki |
|
|
|
More material related to Ageing can be found here:
|
|
|
« Back
|
Search the Global Oneness web site |
|
|
|
|
|
Sneak-Peek of Global Oneness Community
Hi friend! The Global Oneness Community, the place for information and sharing about Oneness is not really launched yet (you will see there is still some clean up to do) ...but it is now open for a sneak-peek! And if you wish - please register and become one of the very first members to do so! Jonas
Forum Home,
Articles,
Photo Gallery,
Videos,
News,
Sitemap
...and much more!
|
