Successful aging

  ______________________________ Required Materials…

 

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  • 📕📕📕 Required Materials 📕📕📕
    Everyone:
    Please note: Only pages 11 (start at Individual Aging: Adding Life to Years) to 23 (end before Stereotypes and their Influence) will be relevant for the quiz
    Chapter 1 (Aging as a Social Process) in Wister AV (2019). Aging as a social process: Canada and beyond. 7th ed, Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
    Person-specific:

All articles included in the Gerontologist’s special issue on successful aging (Volume 55, Issue 1, February 2015)

  • All articles included in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences’ special issue on successful aging (Volume 72, Issue 2, 1 March 2017)
  • Calasanti T, King N (2020). Beyond Successful Aging 2.0: Inequalities, Ageism, and the Case for Normalizing Old Ages. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 76(9), 1817-1827.

 

Summzize by answering the following questions

  • What was the most important thing you learned from the above-listed materials and why is it important? (Please also discuss how this most important learning relates to the question you initially highlighted as most important in the list of
  • What is one thing you want us to review again in the next class and what makes that important to you?
  • How could what you learned about the materials above apply to your future career?