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Assignment: All assignments must be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be written at graduate level English. Please integrate the material presented in the text into your discussion with proper citations following APA format.
For this assignment you are required to interview one person age 65 or older. To preserve the privacy and confidentiality of the person you are interviewing, please disguise all identifying information.
Your assignment must include the following information, integrating the reading assignments to support your own thoughts about the interviewee's responses:
1. Significance of early childhood or upbringing.
2. Major life events: marriage, birth of children, retirement, deaths of significant others. Are these temporally and statistically normative?
3. Age-related changes in physical, cognitive and creative activities.
4. Greatest pleasures of this period in life.
5. Views of latter stages of life, death and dying
6. Plans for long-term care if and when need
7. Wisdom to be shared with interviewer.
Your interview must be 3-4 pages plus a title and reference page
Assignment Outcomes: Analyze problems of cognition, memory and attention in adulthood
Identify the physical, emotional and mental health issues associated with aging
Distinguish factors that promote successful aging
Recognize cultural aspects of aging, death and dying.