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MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 1 Discussion

DQ1 Introduction

Please take a moment to introduce yourself. Where are you from? What are your hobbies? What are you hoping to learn from this course?

DQ2 An Aging Global Population

2a. After reviewing the background materials, explore at least 3 key issues or challenges faced by an aging population across the world.

2b. Analyze at least 3 key recommendations, based on the background materials, that can lead towards healthy aging. Are these recommendations applicable as you get older or to the older adults that you may know? Why or why not?

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 2 Discussion

DQ1The Challenges of Middle Adulthood

1a. After reviewing the background materials, explore the 2 key milestones and 2 key challenges during the period of middle adulthood.

1b. Provide examples from your own life or from family or friends that illustrate the 2 key milestones and 2 key challenges during the period of middle adulthood that you have chosen to discuss.

DQ2 Methods to cope with Middle Adulthood

After finding at least one article from the Touro Library, elaborate on the various activities and habits of thinking that people can integrate in their lives in order to promote healthy physical and mental aging during middle adulthood.

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 3 Discussion

DQ1 Ageism

1a. After reviewing the background materials, explore at least 3 stereotypes or biases towards elderly individuals.

1b. Provide examples from your own life or from family or friends that illustrate the stereotypes or biases towards elderly individuals that you have chosen to discuss.

DQ2 Coping with Ageism

2a. After reviewing the background materials, explore at least 3 key methods to help cope or overcome the impact of ageism towards elderly individuals.

2b. Discuss at least 2 challenges in implementing these coping methods to overcome ageism in your local community or at your job.

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 4 Discussion

DQ1 Theories of Social Emotional Support

After reviewing the background materials, explore the components of at least one (1) theory about social emotional development or support among older adults. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the theory you have chosen to highlight?

DQ2 Seeking Social Support

2a. After reviewing the background materials, elaborate on the various activities and habits of thinking that people can integrate in their lives in order to promote healthy social emotional aspects as a person gets older.

2b. Explore the challenges of implementing the healthy social emotional activities and habits of thinking to the elderly people you may know.

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 5 Discussion

DQ1The Nature of Subjective Well-being

1a. In your own words, discuss why researchers measure happiness in terms of subjective well being.

1b. Based on the background materials, explore at least 3 key findings about the self-reports of subjective well being among aging adults.

DQ2 Application of Knowledge

After reviewing the background materials, explore how the recent findings on subjective well being among aging adults ties back to the concepts associated to Social Emotional Support (Module 4), Ageism (Module 3) or Social Emotional Development (Module 2).

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 6 Discussion

DQ1 Crystallized Processing and Wisdom

1a. After reviewing the background materials, differentiate the cognitive abilities that improve versus the cognitive abilities that decline as a person ages.

1b. Elaborate on the difference between intelligence versus wisdom. Furthermore, explore the factors that increase wisdom within a domain of knowledge or professional practice.

DQ2 Memory and Dementia

2a. After reviewing the background materials, explore the current findings about the brain damage and cognitive effects of dementia upon a person’s aging memories.

2b. Based on the background materials, explore the various methods to help prevent or slow down the impact of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Are these methods easy to adopt among elderly adults in your community? Why or why not?

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 7 Discussion

DQ1 East versus West

1a. After reviewing the background materials, differentiate how Westernized individualistic cultures treat and view elderly adults as compared to non-Westernized collectivistic cultures.

1b. How do these cultural differences impact the well being of the corresponding elderly adults?

DQ2 Application of Knowledge

Based on the background materials, explore the types of interpersonal support and healthy coping methods that can be shared with elderly immigrant adults who live in your local community to promote healthy aging.

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 8 Discussion

DQ1 Facing Death and Mortality

1a. Based on the background materials, explore the effective coping processes that are involved with managing the death of a loved one (ex. a parent, a spouse, a friend etc.)

1b. After reviewing the background materials and finding additional materials, explore how you might choose to live your life knowing the certainty of your own death.

DQ2 Lessons Learned

After learning from all the modules in this course, explore how the different coping methods you have learned in this course can be used to help develop an intervention program for elderly adults in your local community.

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 4 Assignment

Case Assignment

We have discussed a variety of concerns and theories that can be applied in the context of healthy aging. The Case Assignment for this course will be a 5-8 page essay (excluding title page and reference page). You should use a minimum of 4-5 academic sources (at least 2 from the Touro library) in your Case Assignment. Please address the following topics in your Case Assignment.

1. Explore recent statistics (within the last 9 months) highlighting at least one key challenge faced by middle-adulthood individuals in the context of our 21st century society. The challenge can be in the domain of seeking healthcare, technology use, seeking a career change, working conditions for middle adulthood individuals seeking a life-long partner etc (Module 1 and 2).

2. Elaborate on at least 2 theories that reflect the concerns among middle-adulthood individuals based on the key challenge you have identified (Module 2 and 3)

3. Compare and contrast the actual experience of middle adulthood individuals on the key challenge you have previously identified with the mass media (TV, movies, local news, videogames etc.) depictions on the same issue (Module 3)

4. Elaborate on the impact of social support mechanisms in helping to cope with the one key challenge faced by middle adulthood individuals that you have identified (Module 4).

Writing Guidelines

Essay must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins and typed in 12-point Times New Roman.

Your paper should have a title page and references page (not included in the 5-8 page total count).

Essays should be proofread for spelling and grammar mistakes. You must cite all texts used along with proper paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism. Make sure your paper has an introduction (with purpose statement), main points in the body of the paper, and an overall conclusion section.

Build support in your paper with background material including library sources that use the terms we discussed throughout the course/program (Use at least 2 sources from the Touro library)

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 8 Assignment

Signature Assignment

We have discussed a variety of concerns and theories that can be applied in the context of healthy aging throughout this course. The Signature Assignment for this course will be an 8-10 page essay (excluding title page and reference page). You should use a minimum of 4-5 academic sources (at least 2 from the Touro library) in your Signature Assignment.

For the Signature assignment, imagine you have been approached by a local organization to develop a support and intervention program for elderly adults (65 years old and above) in your local community.

Please address the following topics in your Signature Assignment.

1. Elaborate on at least 2 theories covered in this course that will be the foundation of your planned intervention program for elderly adults (65 years old and above). (Module 2, 3, and 4)

2. Explore the key strategies or interventions in order to improve subjective well being among elderly immigrant adults (65 years old and above) who have limited English speaking skills.

(Module 5 and 7)

3. Discuss the key strategies in order to help screen or identify elderly adults (65 years old and above) who might be in the early stages of cognitive decline (ex. memory problems or impulse control problems) (Module 6)

4. Elaborate on the key strategies or interventions that can help provide support for elderly adults (65 years old and above) who are in the final 6-9 months of their lives (Module 8)

Writing Guidelines

Essay must be double-spaced with 1-inch margins and typed in 12-point Times New Roman.

Your paper should have a title page and references page (not included in the 8-10 page total count).

Essays should be proofread for spelling and grammar mistakes.

You must cite all texts used along with proper paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism.

Make sure your paper has an introduction (with purpose statement), main points in the body of the paper, and an overall conclusion section. Build support in your paper with background material including library sources that use the terms we discussed throughout the course/program (Use at least 3 sources from the Touro library)

MPS665 Health and Psychology of the Aging

Module 8 Assignment

Student Self-Reflective Essay

The purpose of the Student Self-Reflective Essay is to reflect upon what one has learned or how one has performed as compared with one’s expectations or goals.

At the end of each course, we ask students to respond to five (5) statements. In your essay please respond in sequential order to the five (5) statements below. There is no requirement for length when responding to each statement.

1. Descriptions of how you feel you improved your knowledge, skills, abilities, and yourself in this session through this course.

2. Evaluation of the work you did during the session for the class and explanations of ways you could have performed better.

3. Topics you have identified that you did not understand or were not successful in trying to implement and suggestions you may have about how to improve the course material on those topics.

4. Ways you might measure the future effects of what you have learned in this course or your future progress/improvement.

5. State whether you achieved the course outcomes (Student Learning Outcomes). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)