Chapter 14 The Personal Context of Later Life
1. What lifestyle accommodations should be made to age-related changes in vision and hearing?
2. How would a spouse accommodate the decline associated with Alzheimers disease?
Chapter 15 Social Aspects of Later Life
1. Explain how friendships facilitate positive adjustment to retirement.
2. Explain the impact that the baby boomers will have on Social Security and Medicare and describe the systems weaknesses.
Classmate 1
Chapter 14 The Personal Context of Later Life
What lifestyle accommodations should be made to age-related changes in vision and hearing?
Lifestyle accommodations for vision will include: modified print; prescription glasses; audio recordings; screen readers, and modified large text on phones. For hearing impairment, some may use interpreters; assistive listen-to systems, and new technology hearing aids.
How would a spouse accommodate the decline associated with Alzheimers disease?
This adult spouse can do the following: Make sure to keep an eye on the spouse; help to restore memory; get family members, friends, and a nurse to help out; feeding, and regular checkups.
Chapter 15 Social Aspects of Later Life
Explain how friendships facilitate positive adjustment to retirement.
Its essential to a persons well-being. The decision to retire involves the loss of occupational identity with no obvious replacement for that loss. Not having a specific job anymore means we either put that aspect of our lives in the past tense. Having friends helps.
Explain the impact that the baby boomers will have on Social Security and Medicare and describe the systems weaknesses.
The cost of Social Security will rise faster than tax income because the population over age 65 will grow faster than the working-age population. The retirement age will also increase dramatically.
Classmate 2
Chapter 14 The Personal Context of Later Life
What lifestyle accommodations should be made to age-related changes in vision and hearing?
Some lifestyle accommodations that should be made to age-related changes in vision and hearing include modified print including close captions on the television and enlarged print on their cell phones. Other accommodations could be hearing devices and the use of prescription glasses.
How would a spouse accommodate the decline associated with Alzheimers disease?
A spouse could accommodate the decline associated with Alzheimers disease by reaching out to support groups or educational programs in order to understand what approach would be best to make. I think the spouse can also ensure their health is in order to better help the spouse. Also, providing a comfortable and safe environment to the spouse can also make a difference.
Chapter 15 Social Aspects of Later Life
Explain how friendships facilitate positive adjustment to retirement.
Friendships can help facilitate positive adjustment to retirement by providing support. The support can include social interaction so that the individual still receives that type of interaction in their retirement life.
Explain the impact that the baby boomers will have on Social Security and Medicare and describe the systems weaknesses.
I believe the age of retirement will increase. I also believe that in the future there may be little no social security due to the cost and taxes. The baby boomers will be the ones effected in this.
