The average life expectancy has increased worldwide and more people live to old age and late old age than ever before. In 2000, for example, the world had 421 million people age 65 years and over. The United Nations projects that by 2050 this figure will more than triple and the world will have almost one and a half billion people age 65 and over (United Nations, 2002; Davidson, 2009). In 2050, the population of older persons will be larger than the population of children (0-14 years) for the first time in human history (United Nation). Based on these facts, everyone should be more familiar with aging. The personal interests and hobbies might change as we grow older. For example, older women spend more time than before in sewing. My interviewee
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Her favorite meal changed because the restaurants have changed and the available food just changed. There was no much fast food restaurants back then, and here favorite food right now is pizza from a local restaurant. The reason for asking this question is to see if the sense of taste changing due to aging would make difference in food preferences. In addition, I asked her about the way that she raised her children and the way that her parents raised her, are they different? She said that her parents loved education and as a result, she has a doctorate, her next brother is a minister, and her sister has a master in social work. She raised her children to get …show more content…
She notices traditionally that people in their young ages (after high school) stop attending church, but they return to the church when they have their own kids because most of them need to give their kids religious foundations. Moreover, I asked her if she let any family member to carrying out activities that she used to do and agreed that her husband helps her a lot especially with aging chronic problems such as arthritis, and vision. She experiences it positively and negatively, because she thinks it is losing a little of your pride and at the same time, her husband is glad to help her. I also asked her if she likes to have a large number of people to count on and interact with or focus time and energy on close relationships? Since she lives at nursing home, she says both. She keeps close relationships with family and a few close friends and on the other hand, there are a lot of friends that she spends time with at the nursing home. In addition, I asked her if she remembers a significant event in her life and I was focusing on the civil rights movement because of gender discrimination 60 years ago. The important events she says a significant is the Cold War, which was between U.S. and Russia and lasted for her entire childhood when she was living in Pittsburg. As a child, she remembers when the government has map on the newspaper and put circles and say everybody in
Her favorite meal changed because the restaurants have changed and the available food just changed. There was no much fast food restaurants back then, and here favorite food right now is pizza from a local restaurant. The reason for asking this question is to see if the sense of taste changing due to aging would make difference in food preferences. In addition, I asked her about the way that she raised her children and the way that her parents raised her, are they different? She said that her parents loved education and as a result, she has a doctorate, her next brother is a minister, and her sister has a master in social work. She raised her children to get …show more content…
She notices traditionally that people in their young ages (after high school) stop attending church, but they return to the church when they have their own kids because most of them need to give their kids religious foundations. Moreover, I asked her if she let any family member to carrying out activities that she used to do and agreed that her husband helps her a lot especially with aging chronic problems such as arthritis, and vision. She experiences it positively and negatively, because she thinks it is losing a little of your pride and at the same time, her husband is glad to help her. I also asked her if she likes to have a large number of people to count on and interact with or focus time and energy on close relationships? Since she lives at nursing home, she says both. She keeps close relationships with family and a few close friends and on the other hand, there are a lot of friends that she spends time with at the nursing home. In addition, I asked her if she remembers a significant event in her life and I was focusing on the civil rights movement because of gender discrimination 60 years ago. The important events she says a significant is the Cold War, which was between U.S. and Russia and lasted for her entire childhood when she was living in Pittsburg. As a child, she remembers when the government has map on the newspaper and put circles and say everybody in