Interviewing Eulogy : Interview A Interview With A Elderly

When I look back at my childhood I cannot picture it without you. You have helped shaped who I am today and for that I thank you. When I think of you i think about all the love that you have to give. I am so lucky to have you in my life and I will always cherish the memories that I have with you.

Successful aging is a complicated and multifaceted concept that varies contextually among individuals, disciplines, and even time. Gerontologists have traditionally considered a person to have aged successfully upon having reached old age with their physical health, mental well-being and spirit still intact. Ultimately, successful aging is a matter of personal perspective, largely influenced by an individual 's values and experiences. Even those within America 's elderly population hold conflicting perspectives on what it means to have aged successfully. A qualitative study published by Reichstadt and Sengupta titled Older Adults ' Perspectives on Successful Aging, concluded that “older adults viewed successful aging as a balance between self-acceptance and self-contentedness on one hand and engagement with life and self-growth in later life on the other” (Reichstadt, "Older Adults ' Perspectives on Successful Aging: Qualitative Interviews", pp. 567-575.)

My grandmother resided with one of my aunts for the last 15 years of her life. As her health started to fail her, she became more and more dependent. My grandmother was always a very independent woman and the rock of our

She replied with Family is anyone that is close to you and supports you through your life” and went on saying that her family supported her all the way even past college and she still talks with them regularly each week. I also talked with her about her grandparents she said that her grandparents held the most status in her family since they were the most knowledgeable. She told me that her grandparents taught her that “success is whatever one deems it to be is you are happy then you are successful”.

Ed is 77-year-old White heterosexual man who is in good health and lives in the Niles area of Fremont, California with his wife, Laura, and eldest son Michael. Ed strongly identifies as Irish-Catholic and he and Laura raised their family in an Irish-Catholic household. I selected Ed as my interviewee because he lives in my neighborhood and is good friends with my neighbor’s father. The two degrees of separation between us are gender, ethnicity/cultural identity, as well as socioeconomic status (he is an upper middle class retiree).

The humanity of aging is a concept sometimes hard to grasp. Understanding why we are

After spending an afternoon interviewing my elderly father-in-law, I gained insight into how he perceives the aging process and the impact on the quality of his life. First, and foremost he viewed aging in a very positive and healthy manner. He believes that a positive attitude assists in accepting physical and psychosocial changes and enjoyed the fact that he and his wife are both physically fit and cognitively alert. He felt confident that advances made in health care and the quality of their lives would continue to be empowering. He enjoys the benefits of being a senior citizen including discounted travel, free education, and other incentives marketed towards seniors. He expressed a sense of well-being with respect to the numerous

Aging is a universal phenomenon and humans are no exception. Gerontology deals with the psychological, social and biological aspects of aging process. A recent study shows that people aged 85 years and older are expected to augment from 5.3 million people to 21 million as the world reach 2050. In today’s world Gerontology has an enormous role to play so that the senior citizens could be analyzed and their needs may be addressed with compassion and empathy.

Getting old and aging are things that have become difficult points for many and despite

L was married for 20 years. She has 2 daughters; one is going to school and the other lives in Texas. Her mother has been living with her for 3 ½ years. She enjoys movies, having coffee with her friends once a week, and her two grandchildren. She is active in her church, and used to do prison ministry. She works in Gerontology at the Health Sciences Center and has been a Tech employee for 25 years.

What will I be like when I am 75 years old? I never thought about what I would be like at the age of 75. I do not think about it because I would love to stay young forever. It would be nice if I could stay 21 forever but that’s not what God intended for us. It is somewhat scary to think about myself being 75 years old. Old age can be looked at in two different ways. For example, the average age to be consider a senior citizen is 65. According to chronological aging some people may consider 50 as old and 80 as young. This all comes down to the individual’s health because an individuals who is 80 can have a ton energy and is in the best shape of the life. Where as an individual who is 50 can be out of shape, have lack of energy, etc. So hopefully at the age of 75, I will be the elderly person that can go run a mile, mow my yard, or play with my grandkids.

As our age moves up in years and we become senior citizens we slowdown in productivity and begin to re-explore life as

“The best classroom is at the feet of an elderly person,” said by a famous American radio and television writer, Andy Rooney. Elderly has so much to teach the younger generation because they have been through an array of events in life that are worth sharing and knowing. The purpose of the study is to understand the experience of aging and late adulthood by using case study method through interview and informal interaction with an older adult. Given the circumstance of long distance, Skype is used to conduct the interview and informal interaction. Mary, is a vibrant and healthy Chinese elderly woman who turned 75 last summer. She is an atheist who has lived in Hong Kong for her entire life and would be classified as middle class lifestyle. She is widowed and lives alone but she has four children and eight grandchildren. Since she is active, healthy and independent, the “young-old” would be the best term to describe Mary according to gerontologists (Berger, 2014, p.675).

The first question about how I perceive the aging process is a tough one. Over the last year I have watched my Aunts, who I always saw as ageless, start to have dementia and other aging issues. This has been a hard thing to confront, as they always seemed immortal! To hear my mother and her sister’s talk about nursing care, health issues and selling properties just feels strange. These women are the strongest women I have ever known, and to see them weaken is tough. At family gatherings my cousins and I talk about how the family dynamic is changing – parents aging and a few have past, children moving on, and we suddenly realize that we are aging as well! How did that happen!

According to dictionary the term widowhood defines “the time of woman’s life when she is widow” or “the state of being widow who has not remarried”. Widowhood is the marital status that a man or women gain after the death of spouse. Widowhood is one of the most deeply distressing life event experienced by adults, and becomes more likely as people age. The term widowhood is more common among women than men. The treatment of widows around the world differs but generally without the existence of men they receive unequal treatment and harassment in the society in the either ways. Though both women and men lose their partner after the death of one of them but the rigid restrictions are imposed on women. Here, in this article we tried