Question

What is a cohort, and why are social gerontologist interested in cohorts?

Answer 1

Cohorts are the groups of the persons having the similar behaviour, symptoms or the event in the same time period, It is based on the changes in the size, age, composition as well as historical events in the society. The age difference is the one of the major factor which occurs due to time and hence gerontologists are interested in cohohots to study the behaviors and symptoms as cohort differences during the whole course of birth of the person and then his/her linving in different circumustances along with the age-related changes.