Gerontology

In as we are now, an old woman, Caro Spencer, seven-six years old retired school teacher and never married. Her brother, John and his young wife decide put Caro into a rural nursing facility, Twin Elms which is located in New Hampshire. Because Caro is unable to live on her own, and her brother can no longer be able to take care of Caro after her operation of heart disease, since she is just too frail. Twin Elms is described as “a concentration camp for the old, a place where people dump their…

Have you ever put much thought into what it takes to graduate high school? All the classes and more classes that they just keep throwing at you. Your first year of high school you think it’s going to be a breeze, you get all your stupid electives that you need to have for graduation out of the way, but then the next year their throwing new computer, physical education or even health classes at you. More things to add to the list of classes to not only finish but pass. Yes, pass you can’t just…

wide angled side and rearview mirrors. These mirrors help minimize hazardous blind spots. Arthritis is another common illness in the elderly. If a person has arthritis, he should consider investing in a steering wheel cover. This will make the steering wheel easier to grip. Senior citizens can also adjust their following distance if they feel their sight and or reflexes have declined. The recommended following distance is about three seconds, but it would be beneficial for a senior citizen to…

Everyone comes from somewhere, believes in something, or ultimately becomes who they are based on certain characteristics. When we focus on a particular group in society, especially their behaviors and beliefs, we are looking at someone’s culture. Culture can be defined as the “Behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group”. With that said, I decided in the last week to center in on one culture specifically, the elderly. We all consider someone an elder if…

Aging is a beautiful challenging unique process that we have the privilege of tackling in each of our lives. For some it may be an easy planned out progression without many bumps in the road, but for most it is an ever changing journey that makes us who we are today. Aging doesn’t always ask us what we want or what we planned on doing with our time, but instead gives us experiences, good and bad, that make up our lives. What better way to understand being an adult and the aging process than to…

It is pretty easy and common of us to assume that most of our identity formation and developmental issues take place when we are younger: from infancy to adulthood. We assume all too often that our elders have their lives and identities all figured out and that they are comfortable with who they are and what they have done. This is simply not true as elders have always faced significant developmental issues in their old age. This issue has become even more important with the emergence of the…

Young @ Herat This paper will be about the movie that Documents the true story of the final weeks of the Young at Heart Chorus .It will show us there other Sid of older people. This movie also show us how this talented group of older people in the chorus there just like us have a passion and the grave to be successful. There play unexpected music, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs like “should I say or should i go’ by The Clash. This movie showed as how they…

The objective of the volunteering work that was assigned was to students this semester, was for us to teach others--mostly the elderly-- how to become more familiarized with the use of different forms of technology. We were to show them how to empower themselves (and live more easily) through the use of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. We were to show them how to save important documents and go paper-free, show them how to use their cellular devices, and so much more. Delving into the…

Why would someone want to live forever? Bernard Williams, a philosopher and an author wrote the essay titled “The Makropulos Case: Reflection on the Tedium of Immortality”. In his essay he discusses how death is not necessarily evil, like some people think. In order to structure his argument, he includes both Epicurus’ and Lucretuis point of view that humans overthink the state of being dead. He agrees with both philosophers that being dead isn’t bad, but Williams believes that Lucretuis is…

If we look all the way back at the early European travelers in the early 1500’s that set their destinations on the Fountain of Youth, a magical source of water capable of reversing the aging process for man, people have been obsessed with the idea of looking younger. As people are aging, there is one common trend amongst everyone, how to achieve the effect of looking and feeling younger. As much as people do not want to believe it or come to terms with their bodies aging, everyone will…