Essay On Interview With Older Adults

By being an older adult many stories are held in memories. When people become older adults they have different aspects about life. They also have different views on parenting roles, grand-parenting roles, sibling ties, friendships, health changes, and physical changes. Aging happens the moment we are born. Our lives are spent to age day to day. The man I interviewed was born on November 19th, 1942. He was the second born out of the five children his parents had. He was raised in a typical Irish Catholic family in a typical Irish neighborhood, on the south side of Chicago. His father was a businessman while his mother was a stay at home mom. The individual I interviewed first wanted to talk about how growing up in society was different then it is today. Back in the day men and women had different roles growing up. Fathers were the workers and supported the household while the mothers were to stay home and take care of the children when they were not at school. Mothers cooked, cleaned, and took care of the …show more content…
When he was in his forty’s to fifty’s he became a general manager of three different chain restaurants. They included McDonald’s, York Steak House, and Aramark. Unfortunately when he had a heart attack at the age of fifty he had to stop working. During his sixty’s and seventy’s his health forced him to retire. When he was seventy he had his first stroke. Even though it might not sound like an accomplishment the thing he felt that was an accomplishment was when he was able to move his left leg and arm again after being hospitalized for five weeks. After the age of seventy-one he decided he wanted to go back into the workplace. One day when he was bumming around he strolled into Longhorn Steakhouse and got an interview. He was hired as a host. The reason he wanted to get back into the work force was because he was tired of sitting around all the