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1. Go to the National Institute for Aging website. Find the “Health” link that allows access to publications on healthy aging, care-giving, medications, dietary supplements, and diseases.

• What are the most recent developments in healthy aging?
• What surprised you most?

*LO 16.10 Apply knowledge of late adulthood, dying, and bereavement to recommend guidelines for social work assessment and intervention.

 

2. Imagine that a local community services board has asked you to find the most up-to-date research on health disparities in late adulthood, by gender, class, race and ethnicity.

Go to the National Center for Health Statistics website: 

• Locate data that will help you prepare a presentation at the next board of directors meeting on this topic. 

*LO 16.2 Summarize major themes in older adult demographic characteristics.

 

3. Look at the Activities of Daily Living Checklist.

• Do you have or have you had a family member who has limitations (who “needs help” or is “dependent”) in any of these categories?
• How does or did this person manage?
  
  • Imagine that you had dependencies in the majority of the presenting categories.
  • How would you want to receive assistance in meeting your needs?

 *LO 16.10 Apply knowledge of late adulthood, dying, and bereavement to recommend guidelines for social work assessment and intervention.

 

4. Go to the Urban Institute’s Retirement and Older Americans link.

• What are the priority issues highlighted, and how do you think these issues affect chances of entering into a healthy very late adulthood?
   

*LO 16.9 Give examples of risk factors and protective factors of late adulthood.

 

5. Go to the Supercentenarians website.

• What do the data, video clips, and articles tell you about who is likely to live the longest?
• In a paragraph summary, identify the main factors that have been found to increase lifespan longevity.

*LO 16.9 Give examples of risk factors and protective factors of late adulthood.

 

6. Use the Internet to find national, state, and local resources to help adults in very late adulthood who have functional disabilities.

• What might be some special challenges in very late adulthood for people with developmental disabilities who also begin to experience additional physical or other functional disabilities?

*LO 16.10 Apply knowledge of late adulthood, dying, and bereavement to recommend guidelines for social work assessment and intervention.