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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
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