This course examines the complexities of aging from a physiological perspective and provides students with learning opportunities to examine normal and abnormal aging, theories of aging, common conditions associated with aging, compression of morbidity, the concept of frailty, aging as a developmental process, and the complex interaction of disease, disability and function with advancing age.

Prerequisite(s): Health Sciences 1300A/B or Health Sciences 2300A/B, Health Sciences 2700A/B and Health Sciences 2711A/B.

Extra Information: 3 hours.