Age segregation

Age segregation is a separation of people based on their age, as living as may be observed in many aspects of some societies. Examples of institutionalized age segregation put age segregation in schools, together with age-segregated housing. There are studies of informal age segregation among adolescents. Age segregation in schools, age grading, or graded education is the separation of students into years of education grades, forms by about the same age.

In the United States, graded education was introduced during 1848 to 1870. Age segregation in the U.S. was a product of industrialization, Western formal schooling, child labor laws, social services agencies, and the rise of disciplines such as psychology and education. A combination of these caused a shift from line workings as a point to separation of economic activities and childcare emerged. Some communities gain different cultural practices and integrate children into mature activities of the breed and community. This is common among Indigenous American communities.

Age segregation is seen by some like Peter Uhlenberg and Jenny Gierveld to improvement individuals by bringing like-minded individuals together to share similar facilities, network and information. The elderly are however disadvantaged by segregation in that they risk being excluded from economic and social developments.

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A statistical analysis of survey data of a survey data for 390 elderly people alive in studio apartments found that age-segregation have a humongous affect on the quality of life of the elderly people because the perception of the elderly in relation to factors that are most outstanding to their quality of life is at variance with that of the policy makers.[]

In the United States some portions of a person's life involves being with the same age cohort. Industrialization brought an increased specialization of all kinds, and age was an important category used to sort people. Society expected teachers to be experts on a particular age group, family members to specialize in different kinds of work, and people to extend through major life roles in a fixed pattern. The work force involvement of older women and men declined, and it was replaced by leisure retirement. Martin Kohli argues that over the length of the twentieth century, age was enormously used to assign people to or prohibit them from specific activities. The or done as a reaction to a impeach was a tendency toward a firmly constant life course. According to Riley and Riley, this tendency toward age-segregated tables began to approximate the age-differentiated "ideal type" configuration in which people gain their education when young, work in middle-age, and enjoy their well-earned leisure time when they are old. Age-based grades, teams, jobs, and leisure activities seemed normal; people were expected to spend major portions of their days and lives with people of their own age.

In a 2010 article for Perspectives on Psychological Science, authors Rogoff et al. state that age-segregated housing can hold some advantages for the elderly such as a higher chance of having more matters in common with their peers. This segregation can also decrease their involvement with societies that are preoccupied with the desirability of youth and manage them the ability to discuss their fears of death and the frequent deaths of others. Some retirement villages are heavily secured, which can afford the elders a sense of safety and protection. An older person is more likely to be noticed in an age segregated community whether he or she is in need of help. The elderly people living in such a community also get lower rates because of the quantity of similar goods and services needed by their communities. Some of the disadvantages of age-segregated housing are isolation from mainstream society, preventing older people from sharing wisdom and experiences with younger people and leading old people to have restricted sets of friendships and neighbors. In some elderly people age-segregated housing can contribute to low morale and feelings of uselessness and rejection.