saint psy325 module 8 assignment

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Module 8 Assignment

Interview with an Older Adult

This exercise has been adapted from the lesson “Participation in Government: Interview of an Older

Adult” from Lesson Plans on Aging Issues: Creative Ways to Meet Social Studies Standards produced by

the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute.

General Instructions

Using the questions below, you will conduct an interview with a person at least 60 years of age. Feel free

to add questions of your own whenever one occurs to you. Be sure to review the Historical Context

section on the following pages before beginning the interview. The complete project will include your

questions and the interviewee’s answers (i.e., transcript of the interview) as well as the three Reaction

paragraphs described below.

Report Criteria

1. Typed and double-spaced.

2. Include the interview questions in your report in a format that enables the reader to know what the

person you are interviewing is referring to.

3. Discuss your personal reaction to the interview in three paragraphs at the end of your report (see

final section below).

Interview Questions

1. Please tell me about your childhood, family and school life.

2. Do you consider yourself old? At what ages (or stages) did you notice that you were getting

older?

3. What is the most important historical event or period of time that you have lived through?

4. How did it influence you personally?

5. What is the biggest change you have seen in how people conduct their everyday lives?

6. What have been the best years of your life so far? What are your plans for the future?

7. How are young people today different from when you were their age?

8. What advice would you give young people to help them prepare for their old age?

9. Have you ever experienced any negative attitudes or discrimination because of your age? Please

explain.

10. Student question. Based on what you’ve learned, ask at least one more question; what else

would you like to know about this person’s life?

Reaction

In three paragraphs, discuss your reaction to the interview:

1. What did you learn? Did anything surprise you?

2. How did you feel during the interview?

3. What changes (if any) have occurred in your perception of older adults? (What did you think

before? What do you think now?)

Submission

Submit the final interview report to the Dropbox and Turnitin.com no later than Sunday 11:59 PM

EST/EDT.

Historical Context

Before beginning the interview, you should familiarize yourself with national events, trends, and U.S.

presidents from the 20th century to the present day that are outlined on the following pages.

Important Events:

1900-1920

Development of big business

Development of transportation

Panama Canal

Airplane invented

One room schools

First automobiles

World War I in Europe

U.S. entry into World War I

Flu epidemic

Armistice Day

1920-1930

Women vote

Prohibition

Flappers

Progressive era

Stock Market crash

1930-1940

Great Depression

New Deal

Radio popular

1940-1950

Pearl Harbor

Draft and World War II

Atomic bomb

V-E Day and V-J Day

Cold war and anti-communism

1950-1960

Sputnik

Fear of nuclear war

TV becomes common appliance

Elvis Presley popular

1960-1970

Vietnam

Civil rights

Great Society programs

John F. Kennedy assassinated

Martin Luther King assassinated

Neil Armstrong, first man on moon (Apollo missions)

Beatles popular

1970-1980

Arab oil embargo

Inflation

Gas Shortage

Drug use more widespread

Computers become more common

Watergate

Richard M. Nixon resigns as president

1980-1990

John Lennon shot and killed

Bell telephone system divided into smaller companies

Sally Ride, first female astronaut

Space shuttle Challenger explodes

AIDS virus

Ruptured Exxon tanker spills oil

Texas elects first woman Governor since Reconstruction

1990-2000

Nelson Mandela, apartheid ends in South Africa

Persian Gulf crisis

East and West Germany reunited-Berlin Wall taken down

Soviet Union dissolved

First wave of “baby boomers” turns 50

2001-2003

Collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City

War with Iraq

2004-2006

Hurricane Katrina

2007-2010

Barack Obama, first African-American elected as President

Breakout of H1N1

Earthquake in Haiti

U.S. Presidents from 1897-present

1897-1901 William McKinley

1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt

1909-1913 William H. Taft

1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson

1921-1923 Warren Harding

1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge

1929-1933 Herbert Hoover

1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt

1945-1953 Harry Truman

1953-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower

1961-1963 John F. Kennedy

1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson

1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon

1974-1977 Gerald Ford

1977-1981 Jimmy Carter

1981-1989 Ronald Reagan

1989-1992 George Bush

1992-1900 Bill Clinton

2001-1908 George W. Bush

2009- Barack Obama