Adulthood and Aging

Adulthood and Aging

Interview Paper/Research Paper
You will reflect on the information that you have learned over the semester.
Topics covered in relation to Adulthood and Aging:
Developmental psych
Diversity
Identitiy development & Personality
Cognition
Physical changes
Disease and illness
Relationships
Education and work
Coping and support
Death, Dying, Bereavement
Movie Week!
Healthy lifestyles
Housing

How can you see applying the information you learned?
How might it pertain to your own life?
How did the information you learned about help you understand friends or family members better?
How is learning about aging helpful to you as you continue your studies and then, ultimately, enter the workforce?

It is an interview paper.
For this assignment, you must interview two people and compare their experiences. You may either do a comparison of older-old (75+) and younger-old (60-75) or a comparison of a man’s experiences with aging to a woman’s experiences (make sure they are of a similar age).

The people may be family members or someone you are otherwise acquainted with. Do not provide identifying information about your interview subject in your paper – the subject’s identity should remain confidential. You can just use the person’s first name. Your interview should be conducted in-person. If this is impossible, you may conduct a series of phone interviews. Do NOT interview them together.

The primary focus of your reflection paper should be the connection of interviewee’s responses to course themes, issues, and terminologyfrom the book. Your paper should clearly and knowledgably reflect at least 7 major topics from the course, making it a truly “comprehensive” project. When writing your paper, do not rewrite the interview word-for-word. Summarize what was said and use relevant quotes to support your ideas.

When interviewing your participants, be sure to discuss how they are living their lives on psychological (how they are feeling – emotionally), social (friendships, lovers…), cognitive (memory, disorientation…), and physical (physical ailments) levels. For most subjects, the interview process will take about an hour.

Projects must be typed with the following specs: 4 to 6 pages, 1” margins, 12 pt. font, double- spaced.
The last page of your paper will be your interview questions.
Always spell-check and read it out loud for grammatical errors, focus on organization.

 

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As people grow older, they experience a lot of changes in their lives that they do not feel like they were the ones who used to enjoy the life they had as young people. This is because, at the age of over 75, most of the things that a person could do in his younger age can no longer be done making someone to feel weird…………………………

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