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2020-2021 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SOC 226 - Issues in Aging

Credits: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: Open
This course will address the issues of aging in transition, explore the conflicts of change, and examine the needs and strategies to best meet the demands and challenges presented to this fast-growing segment of our population.
Competencies
  1. Analyze the imagery of aging from past to present
    1. Examine aging from one of abject need to excessive affluence
    2. Examine the range of stereotype images
    3. Review new terms and definitions and the conceptual complexity of the term
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of how policy, social, and human issues come together
    1. Recognize advanced age as a major social policy variable, both historically and currently
    2. Explain how social policies affect the future
  3. Review the change of cultural traditions to modern culture in the development of life’s course
  4. Identify the resources available for financing the changing needs of the aged
    1. List special care and disabilities
    2. Identify types of housing available
    3. Review the continuum of care
  5. Review the continuum of care
  6. Assess the impact of new emerging aging populations and the challenges to the field of aging
  7. Analyze the changing needs of leisure activity and productive aging
    1. Review the opportunities available for the older adult
    2. Examine the new concept of a senior volunteerism
  8. Examine what it means to be a professional in the field of aging
    1. Review the past, present, and future of aging as a field of professional endeavor
    2. Determine when a job is in the field of aging
    3. Examine the link between professional education, training, and job function
    4. Identify gerontology as a specialization versus a primary area of practice



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