Proposal & Script Instructions
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The theory being addressed: Biopsychosocial
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Minimum 20 questions
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The Script portion you will need to come up with a series of questions (script) that you will want to ask the elder adult you are interviewing.
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The questions should be derived from our course concepts such as chronic disease, the biology of aging, love, and intimacy, social interactions, living arrangements, economic security, productive aging, retirement, death and dying, etc
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These questions should cover the history of the person’s life and capture the essence of who the elder adult is. These questions should also help you assess the older adult using a theory model. (Theory Model = Biopsychosocial)
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While developing the questions, you will have in mind the BioPsychoSocial theoretical approach you will use to assess the older adult.
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The Proposal portion is a proposal of how you will complete this assignment. Before you decide what questions you will want to ask your interviewee, you must first write two to three paragraphs stating what you will want to learn from this assignment
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Make up an interview with an elder, the metaphorical elder I want to use is my great grandmother “Nana”. She is 70 years old, and she suffers from dementia and some symptoms of Alzheimer’s. She is cognitively becoming deteriorated but is physically in good condition
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These questions should cover the history of the person’s life and capture the essence of who the elder adult is. = Make this up, as you don’t know my Nana
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Use the book: Hooyman, N. R., Kawamoto, K. Y., & Kiyak, H. A. (2015). Aging Matters. Pearson Education (US). https://online.vitalsource.com/books/9780133973884
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Please let me know if you cannot find a free pdf or access to this book, as this book will be the main source for information and citations. Other than the book’s information for theories and terms, you will use metaphorical experiences for the life, assessment, and answers to the interview questions about my great-grandmother Nana’s life.
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This is typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman, font 12, APA 6th ed. citation (in text and as reference.)
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Life review, as described by Robert Butler, is a naturally occurring, universal mental process prompted by the realization of a foreshortened life expectancy. It potentially proceeds toward a reorganization of the self, including the achievement of such characteristics as wisdom and serenity in the aged. The process consists of reminiscence, thinking about oneself, and a reconsideration of previous life experiences and their meaning. Butler’s description of the life review process closely parallels Erikson’s last stage of development, which is a dynamic between integrity vs. despair. For some older persons, the process of thinking about the past may lead to depression and obsessive rumination or to life’s successful resolution. Therefore, the life review process holds the potential for the older adult to reach ever-increasing levels of self-awareness. The crucial task of such life review is to evaluate one’s life and accomplishments and to accept the whole, both the good and the difficulties, as all necessarily a part of one’s own individual life. This sense of embracing life confirms that one’s story has been “a meaningful adventure in history.” The life review process takes place gradually over a period of years for the older person and an interested other person usually assist the older adult by taking an oral history. The history can be taken over a period of several sessions and may be tape recorded. The results are life long-lasting memories, which may be given to the elder and may be shared with younger family members.
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This is a two-part assignment, the last part is the paper itself which will be 8 pages long. I will submit this assignment and the paper separately, but please let me know if you are interested in completing the second assignment as well, which will be due next Friday. I will tip handsomely on this assignment if the grade and feedback from the professor are satisfactory and the next assignment as well if you chose to do both. Please let me know if you would like me to add you as a favorite so you can do the second assignment as well 🙂 Thank you very much in advance! 🙂