Tentative Course
Schedule
Tuesdays/Thursdays, FA110 @ 4:30 - 5:50pm
| DAY | DATE | CLASS TOPIC |
READING / HOME WORK ASSIGNMENTS
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| Tue | 1/20 | Introduction
to the course and course requirements - class outline |
n/a |
| Thu | 1/22 | The
Field of Social Gerontology - Why study Aging? - Age stereotypes and ageism - What is old? Concepts of 3rd & 4th Age - Profile of Older Americans Film: Aging in America (selections) - class outline - ppt (pdf) |
Check out the course
website
and syllabus; bring questions to class; buy books (university bookstore, amazon.com, or bookfinder4u.com) Read Chapter 1 (Quadagno) Watch narrated slide show: Aging in America (MSNBC) |
| Tue | 1/27 | Psychological Theories
of Aging - activity vs. disengagement theories - continuity theory - Stage Theories - Adult Development - Life Review - class outline - ppt (pdf) |
Read Chapter
2 (p. 25-35) and Chapter
7 (starting
with "Stage Theories of Adult Development," p. 165-172) and Read Robert Butler: Age, Death, and Life Review Final Paper - Part 1: Start to recruit person to interview, make appointment, and work on developing your interview questionnaire. |
| Thu | 1/29 | Issues & Concepts
in Gerontology - individual aging vs. population aging - age, cohort and period effect - on life expectancy (Butler, BBC clip) - another view on life expectancy - The Timing, Duration and Sequencing of ...Life Course Events - The Effect of Early Life Experiences on ...Later Life Outcomes - Theory of Cumulative (Dis)advantage - Watch video: British TV Series: 7 Up - class outline - (ppt) |
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| Tue | 2/3 | First In-Class Exam | Study
Guide  |
| Thu | 2/5 | Film: Trip to Bountiful | |
| Tue | 2/10 | Return & review Exam Discuss: Trip to Bountiful Physical Changes and Aging Unfair Hearing Test - class outline |
Chapter
6, esp. The Aging Body, p. 125-147.
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| Thu | 2/12 | Psychological Perspectives: Cognitive Changes Guest lecturer: Val Cotter, UPenn - Alzheimer's Disease, & other dementias |
Read Mark, Why
We Forget (pdf) APA - Learning and Memory resources (optional: other resources for those with an interest in clinical care) |
| Tue | 2/17 | Psychological Perspectives: Cognitive Changes, cont'd Film: The Aging Mind - class outline |
Chapter 7,
p. 157-164 NYT- H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82 |
| Thu | 2/19 | Psychological Perspectives,
con'td - Wisdom & Creativity Guest Speaker: Mrs. Patricia Marks - Reflections by Kristi Napoleon |
Chapter 7,
p. 148-157 Read: Kristi Napoleon's Reflections on successful aging Check out the following websites: - Elderhostel - Road Scholar - Learning: It's a Trip |
| Tue | 2/24 | Personality, Culture
and Aging: Aging in a Jewish Community Film: Number Our Days (1976) - class outline |
Myerhoff,
Barbara, Number
Our Days & Chapter 7, p. 164-165 |
| Thu | 2/26 | Personality, Culture and Aging: Aging in a Jewish Community - dependency vs. autonomy ...(clips from I'm not Rappaport) - class outline |
Myerhoff, Barbara, Number
Our Days
(questions) OPTIONAL: Seminar at UPENN 9am - 10:30am “The Presymptomatic Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Imaging and CSF Biomarkers” (pdf) |
| Tue | 3/3 | Ethnicity, Aging
and Disability - an African American woman's story - history of polio - ppt |
Deppen, et al, Aging,
Disability and Ethnicity (pdf)
Final Paper - Part 2: How to conduct the interview and analyze the data you collected. (Bring your interview to class.) |
| Thu | 3/5 | Film: The
Wash (selections) Review for the exam - class outline |
On Japanese
Norms and Values (link) Discussion Questions for "The Wash" |
| Tue | 3/10 | The Aging Mind + Personality, Culture and Aging (ppt) - Summary and Conclusion - class outline - Review for Exam |
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| Thu | 3/12 | Mid-term EXAM | Study
Guide |
| Spring Recess ( 3/14-3/22) | |||
| Tue | 3/24 | Health Care and
Aging Film: P. Donahue, U.S. Health Care - class outline - ppt |
Chapter 10 and Gillick, Muriel, The
Denial of Aging (1-62) |
| Thu | 3/26 | Caring
for Frail Elderly (LTC) Film: Home Care Workers (SEIU) and Film: Aging in America (section on LTC - class outline |
Chapter 13,
Gillick, Muriel, The
Denial of Aging (93-122)
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| Tue | 3/31 | Chapter 14, and Gillick, Muriel, The Denial of Aging (63-92) Discussion Questions for "The
Detour" |
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| Thu | 4/2 |
The Denial of Aging, Chapter 4 "The Trouble with Medicare" -ppt - class outline |
Read Gillick, Muriel, The
Denial of Aging 93-121) and our text (263-270). Watch this interview with psychotherapist and sociologist Lillian Rubin (84) as she discusses old age and dying in contemporary society. "06- denial of death" on left navigation bar (3 min.) full program (56:41 min) |
| Tue | 4/7 | Nursing Homes
and Assisted Living - class outline |
Continue to read Gillick, Muriel, The Denial of Aging (123-194) |
| Thu | 4/9 | The Denial of Aging - study guide |
Final chapters, The
Denial of Aging
(195-269) |
| Tue | 4/14 | 3rd In-Class Exam | >>> Study Guide |
| Thu | 4/16 | Class
is cancelled! |
Follow
Online
Instructions for Final Paper If you have questions, feel free to drop me an email or set up an individual appointment |
| Tue | 4/21 | Individual Appointments | as arranged via email |
| Thu | 4/23 | Individual Appointments | as arranged via email |
| Tue | 4/28 | Individual Appointments | as arranged via email |
| Thu | 4/30 | Last Class: Careers in Aging and on the meaning of life |
Life
Review Paper due |
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The reading assignments are due on the day the chapters
are discussed in class. For example, you should have read Chapter 1 by Thursday, 1/22. |
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