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GREAT's Assignment DUE NOV 22nd

Aging and Health 120 Senior Interview Paper specifications/directions

The senior interview paper is based on your interview of a senior citizen. The senior interview MUST be done BEFORE students write the senior paper. Details regarding how to complete the senior interview are located with that specific assignment. The senior interview paper is worth 100 points. Use the checklist below to assist you in completing the requirements for the paper’s format correctly.

YES                NO

1.Does the cover page have your name, section, and date of submission?

2.  Did you set the font size to 12 and print style set at Calibri or Times

New Roman?

3.  Are the questions answered in paragraph form in complete sentences?

DO NOT TYPE the question and then the answer!

4.  Is each paragraph double spaced?

5. Did you set the spacing for the page layout to 8? Go to page layout, look

at spacing and set it at 8.

6.  Did you perform a spelling and grammar check before submitting?

7.   Is there a separate reference page at the end of the paper in APA format?

NOTE: If no references are used in the paper the highest grade that can be

earned is 20 points!

8.  Did you utilize a minimum of 4 different quality resources (not the course textbook.

Be sure to evaluate all sources for relevance, authority, and currency.

9.  Did you cite your sources in the body of the paper in the APA style stated

in this project?

10.  Were your answers thorough?   The paper should be 3-4 pages long NOT

including the cover and reference pages!

AGING and HEALTH 120 – Senior Interview Paper

Paragraph One: Introduction

Use 4-5 sentences to explain the reason for interviewing a senior and the topics you will be writing about in this paper. Suggestion: read the questions below and incorporate some of the questions as the topics you will be addressing.

Paragraph Two: Address questions 1-3 below:

Select 2 healthy lifestyle habits/choices that the senior you interviewed practiced and incorporated throughout their life and state what those healthy lifestyle choices were. Refer to questions 2 – 13  and 18 – 22 from the interview to answer this question.

Explain why you think each of the 2 healthy lifestyle habits/choices they practiced were healthy choices.  Additionally, list 2 examples of other possible healthy habits/choices that they could have made and explain the reasons why you chose them as possibilities.

Select one of the positive healthy lifestyle habits/choices they practiced and utilize research and evidence to support your thoughts regarding why this habit/choice is a healthy one to incorporate into one’s life.

Paragraph Three: Address questions 4-7 below:

After considering the most stressful situations/events that occurred in their live, describe how they coped with 2 of the stressful situations/events.  (Refer to the senior’s responses to questions 14 – 16.)

Do you think their coping choices were positive and healthy ways to do so? Explain your answer.

Select one of the coping choices the senior utilized. State if you think that method was a healthy and positive method—or was it a negative and unhealthy method to deal with the stressful event/situation? Now support your thoughts by utilizing research and evidence regarding why this coping choice was a healthy and positive method or a negative and unhealthy method to deal with the stressful event/situation.

Select one of the stressful situations/ events from the senior’s interview and describe how this stressful situation / event could have possibly been influenced, in a negative manner, by any of the following:  their age at that time, their ethnicity, or gender.

Paragraph Four: Address questions 8-12

Have they ever experienced discrimination and/or have been stereotyped as a result of their age (at any age), ethnicity or gender? If their answer was no, then ask them what type of discrimination and/or stereotyping possibly could have occurred due to their age, ethnicity or gender. Explain your answer.

Select 2 different groups of seniors (a few example are: senior males compared to senior females, Caucasians and Hispanics, poor seniors compared to wealthy seniors) and analyze one of the following: racial, cultural, or socioeconomic differences among older adults. Describe what the research states regarding the differences that exist between those two groups utilizing a minimum of 5 sentences.

Describe what the senior’s thoughts and attitudes were in regards to their experiences with being exposed to and working with people of the same ethnicity and religious beliefs as themselves or being exposed to a variety of ethnicities and religions at different points in their lives.

List and explain 2 positive experiences that you think could be a result of people living and working with different ethnicities and religious beliefs besides yourself.

List and explain 2 negative experiences that you think could be a result of people living and working with different ethnicities and religious beliefs besides yourself.

Paragraph Five: Address questions 13-14

Based on your observations and interview with the senior, list two traits/habits that people who age gracefully possess.  Explain your reasons for choosing each of the traits/habits. Use research and evidence to support one of the traits/habits that you discussed in regards to traits/habits that people who age gracefully possess.

Explain how you can incorporate one of the healthy traits/habits that the senior you interviewed possessed into your own lifestyle and how that health trait/habit may assist you in aging in a positive and healthy manner.

General Education Common Graded Assignment: GREAT HLTH 120 Aging and Health Aging and Health is a general education course designed to assist students in the process of aging and their health in a positive and healthy manner. One of the goals of this assignment is to assess student competence for each of these objectives: I. Written and Oral Communication – Describe what healthy life style choices were made by the senior they interviewed and then state why they thought the choices the senior made were healthy lifestyle choices. Support their thoughts with scientific documentation. CCO objectives 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 17. II. Critical Analysis and Reasoning – Determine what healthy lifestyle choices the senior made in their life in regards to their activity level, diet, nutrition, stress coping techniques, and possible discrimination and/or stereotyping. Utilize scientific documentation to support the importance of practicing the healthy life style choices the senior made. CCO objectives 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 17. IV. Information Literacy – To complete the senior interview paper students are required to utilize resources from scientific websites, books, journals etc. Students must access, evaluate, utilize, and document scientific information to support what is considered to be healthy lifestyle choices, healthy methods of dealing with stress, differences among older adults, and how healthy traits/habits may assist them in aging in a positive and healthy manner. CCO objective 17 V. Scientific and Quantitative or Logical Reasoning VI. Local and Global Diversity - Determine differences and issues among people of all ages, ethnicities, cultural, and religious backgrounds. CCO objectives 4 and 12 VII. Personal and Professional Ethics – demonstrate personal responsibility and self-reflection when making healthy lifestyle choices that promote aging in a positive and healthy manner. Determine what type of discrimination and/or stereotyping possibly could have occurred due to the senior’s age, ethnicity or gender. CCO objectives 6, 9, 10, and 11. Purpose: Through this culminating assignment students review, reflect on and personalize information and concepts from the Aging and Health course. Based on the student’s interview with a senior citizen, students then determine what positive and healthy lifestyle habits and traits the senior practiced. Then students determine how they could apply some of those positive and healthy traits/habits into their own lives to age in a graceful and fulfilling manner. Audience: The target audience includes the instructor, students in the Aging and Health course and anyone in the general population who has an interest in learning about aging and health. Aging and Health 120 Senior Interview Paper specifications/directions The senior interview paper is based on your interview of a senior citizen. The senior interview MUST be done BEFORE students write the senior paper. Details regarding how to complete the senior interview are located with that specific assignment. The senior interview paper is worth 100 points. Use the checklist below to assist you in completing the requirements for the paper’s format correctly. YES NO 1.Does the cover page have your name, section, and date of submission? 2. Did you set the font size to 12 and print style set at Calibri or Times New Roman? 3. Are the questions answered in paragraph form in complete sentences? DO NOT TYPE the question and then the answer! 4. Is each paragraph double spaced? 5. Did you set the spacing for the page layout to 8? Go to page layout, look at spacing and set it at 8. 6. Did you perform a spelling and grammar check before submitting? 7. Is there a separate reference page at the end of the paper in APA format? NOTE: If no references are used in the paper the highest grade that can be earned is 20 points! 8. Did you utilize a minimum of 4 different quality resources (not the course textbook. Be sure to evaluate all sources for relevance, authority, and currency. 9. Did you cite your sources in the body of the paper in the APA style stated in this project? 10. Were your answers thorough? The paper should be 3-4 pages long NOT including the cover and reference pages! AGING and HEALTH 120 – Senior Interview Paper Paragraph One: Introduction Use 4-5 sentences to explain the reason for interviewing a senior and the topics you will be writing about in this paper. Suggestion: read the questions below and incorporate some of the questions as the topics you will be addressing. Paragraph Two: Address questions 1-3 below: Select 2 healthy lifestyle habits/choices that the senior you interviewed practiced and incorporated throughout their life and state what those healthy lifestyle choices were. Refer to questions 2 – 13 and 18 – 22 from the interview to answer this question. Explain why you think each of the 2 healthy lifestyle habits/choices they practiced were healthy choices. Additionally, list 2 examples of other possible healthy habits/choices that they could have made and explain the reasons why you chose them as possibilities. Select one of the positive healthy lifestyle habits/choices they practiced and utilize research and evidence to support your thoughts regarding why this habit/choice is a healthy one to incorporate into one’s life. Paragraph Three: Address questions 4-7 below: After considering the most stressful situations/events that occurred in their live, describe how they coped with 2 of the stressful situations/events. (Refer to the senior’s responses to questions 14 – 16.) Do you think their coping choices were positive and healthy ways to do so? Explain your answer. Select one of the coping choices the senior utilized. State if you think that method was a healthy and positive method—or was it a negative and unhealthy method to deal with the stressful event/situation? Now support your thoughts by utilizing research and evidence regarding why this coping choice was a healthy and positive method or a negative and unhealthy method to deal with the stressful event/situation. Select one of the stressful situations/ events from the senior’s interview and describe how this stressful situation / event could have possibly been influenced, in a negative manner, by any of the following: their age at that time, their ethnicity, or gender. Paragraph Four: Address questions 8-12 Have they ever experienced discrimination and/or have been stereotyped as a result of their age (at any age), ethnicity or gender? If their answer was no, then ask them what type of discrimination and/or stereotyping possibly could have occurred due to their age, ethnicity or gender. Explain your answer. Select 2 different groups of seniors (a few example are: senior males compared to senior females, Caucasians and Hispanics, poor seniors compared to wealthy seniors) and analyze one of the following: racial, cultural, or socioeconomic differences among older adults. Describe what the research states regarding the differences that exist between those two groups utilizing a minimum of 5 sentences. Describe what the senior’s thoughts and attitudes were in regards to their experiences with being exposed to and working with people of the same ethnicity and religious beliefs as themselves or being exposed to a variety of ethnicities and religions at different points in their lives. List and explain 2 positive experiences that you think could be a result of people living and working with different ethnicities and religious beliefs besides yourself. List and explain 2 negative experiences that you think could be a result of people living and working with different ethnicities and religious beliefs besides yourself. Paragraph Five: Address questions 13-14 Based on your observations and interview with the senior, list two traits/habits that people who age gracefully possess. Explain your reasons for choosing each of the traits/habits. Use research and evidence to support one of the traits/habits that you discussed in regards to traits/habits that people who age gracefully possess. Explain how you can incorporate one of the healthy traits/habits that the senior you interviewed possessed into your own lifestyle and how that health trait/habit may assist you in aging in a positive and healthy manner. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Students, to submit the paper correctly, do the following: For online Aging and Health 120 courses: on the specified due date and time stated in the syllabus and/or calendar pages, submit copy one as an attachment in the message in Brightspace to your professor, before the online deadline. On the cover page of this paper, it should have ONLY your student ID#, the course name, and section (Ex. HLTH/HUSC 120 WO4). On the second copy, the cover page should have your name, section, and date of submission, save the assignment as a word document and submit the assignment into the grade center or how your professor wants you to submit assignments into Brightspace. For face-to-face Aging and Health 120 courses: on the specified due date stated in the syllabus and/or calendar pages, students must hand in two (2) copies of the typed assignment. On copy one, have ONLY your CCBC student ID# on the cover page and the course and section (Ex. HLTH/HUSC 120 CFA). On the second copy, the cover page should have your name, section, and date of submission. GRADING: This assignment is worth a minimum of 10% of the total course grade. See attached rubric for details regarding how this paper will be graded. Questions for Aging and Health 120 Senior Interview Biographical information for the person you are interviewing: Their name: Their age: What is your relationship to the person you are interviewing? Their place of birth: Their sex: Marital Status: Occupation (if they don’t work now, what did they used to do?): Interests and Hobbies: The date of your interview: What do you think are the factors that contribute to the quality of a person’s life as they have gotten older? What positive health behaviors are you currently practicing? (Some examples: eating healthy, exercising and/or being active, stress management techniques.) What do you believe is the most important factor that influences longevity? Why? How do you think the following issues contribute to a person’s health status: marital status, income, family/friends support, level of education? Were you physically active as a younger person? If yes, what physical activities did you do? Are you currently exercising and/or physically active? If yes, what are you doing? If no, why are you not physically active and/or exercising? What is your philosophy/beliefs about exercising and being physically active? What type of exercise and/or physical activity do you believe is effective? Has your activity level changed as you have aged? Discuss reasons for a possible change in your activity levels and why your - or a person in general’s activity level—may change as a result of aging. Do you believe that nutritional awareness is important with relation to healthy aging? Have you changed your diet as you have gotten older? Explain your answer. Do you believe that the progression of cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and heart disease are influenced by diet? Explain your answer. Identify 2-3 life events that have caused the most stress in your life. List the strategies you used to cope with the stressors identified above—and other stressors, in general. Which of those strategies worked best for you? Explain why. Have you ever experienced discrimination and/or have been stereotyped as a result of your age (at any age)? Ethnicity? Gender? Explain your answer. What skills do you think are needed in today’s society to not only survive, but to flourish? What is your philosophy regarding aging and beauty? Based on your observations, what are some of the traits that people who age gracefully possess? What do you think—and how do you feel—about today’s youth? What is your philosophy regarding death and dying as part of life’s continuum? At the following points of time in your life stated below, have you lived and worked with others of the same ethnicity and religion as yourself? Explain your answer to each of the time frames above. Childhood Teenage years Young adult Middle age Now – Do you feel that working with people who are of the same ethnicity and religion as yourself is a positive or negative experience? Explain your thoughts.