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All right, so here we're talking about how gender, race, and social class intersect to influence experience of aging in the united states.
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So i'm going to talk about each one separately and then how they can all combine.
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So let's start with gender.
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Females tend to live longer and make it to 100 more often and they show a younger brain age, more frequent visits to health care providers and all this together shows that they can have their illnesses diagnosed earlier, just better overall care of themselves.
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However, in appearance and sexual function, males tend to have slow gradual declines while females tend to have rapid declines after menopause.
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So women live longer, seem to take better care, but men age slower visually, sexually.
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Race, caucasians age the quickest because their skin is more susceptible to photo damage and signs of aging are more pronounced so darker skin is less susceptible and therefore there's less wrinkling, less skin damage that's showing.
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So and finally, socio -class, socioeconomic status essentially has been found to affect the psychological health of aging individuals as well...