Social Gerontology
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 1 Discussion
Social Gerontology
Social Gerontology Discussion Questions
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Demographic Trends in Aging and Population Impacts
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your original post:
Discuss which demographic trends you found interesting; why did you find them interesting?
What are potential impacts of the aging population on the United States as a whole, specifically healthcare service organizations?
Discuss life expectancy trends and future population concerns.
Identify how these trends and concerns will impact your role as a service provider for aging adults.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Multidisciplinary Approach to Gerontology
A multidisciplinary approach to gerontology includes members with different professional backgrounds and skills that can compensate for each other’s weaknesses, as well as collaborate to accomplish goals. This approach is particularly important in healthcare settings in providing care and services to patients. A common example is a hospital discharging an aging patient, or an aging adult who is admitted to a long-term care organization for therapy after a fall. You as a healthcare practitioner or service provider will often be responsible for addressing care needs of aging adults, which as we know are multi-faceted. This approach provides team members with diverse backgrounds who can provide different viewpoints and experiences for better brainstorming across cultures and respective industries.
Discuss why a multidisciplinary approach to gerontology is needed, specifically in a health care setting with you as the service provider. Identify the top five disciplines that should be included on a multidisciplinary team, and provide a rationale for why you selected those disciplines.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 2 Discussion
Social Aging Issues and Ageism Impacts
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Ranking Social Aging Issues
Imagine you are a senator preparing for this year’s policy agenda. Your primary stakeholders are aging service providers, so keep this in mind as you rank the social issues. You must rank, from the highest priority to the lowest priority, the following social aging concerns to determine which issue should be your major focus. Include an explanation for your ranking choices that can be understood by ordinary constituents as well as make sense to professionals in the field.
Fall prevention program
HIV/AIDS interventions
Social isolation
Mental health services gap
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Combating Ageism
In a Word document or PDF document, complete the following:
Locate two images or advertisements: one that represents aging in a positive way and one that seems to be representing an older person in a less flattering or ageist way. Include the website link to the images or advertisements. You can use images from any source, such as greeting cards, as long as you can show the image or advertisement. (You can take a picture of the greeting card, for example, and copy and paste it onto the document, then identify the greeting card.) Include the context or target from where you found the images or advertisements. For example, if you found one of your images from the Dove campaign, indicate that.
Identify what you believe to be the intended or target audience for each image or advertisement.
Compare and contrast the images you found and how you think they represent society’s views about aging. Use the learning materials to support your claims.
What role as a service provider for aging adults would you have in combating ageism, and how might you achieve this?
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 3 Discussion
Evaluating Capacity for Decision Making and Sexual Expression in Senior Living
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Evaluation Capacity of Older Adults
After completing the readings, respond to the following prompts:
Discuss the ethical and legal factors as well as professional standards of practice considered in evaluating a person’s capacity to make decisions.
Discuss challenges you as a service provider for aging adults would have in evaluating a person’s capacity and how you may go about doing this.
Discuss what you found surprising in the readings as it relates to determining capacity.
Propose methods in which you as a service provider for aging adults would incorporate capacity evaluation practices into your interaction with aging adults.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Sex Stigmas and Senior Living
After reading Syme and Cohn (2016), identify two factors you found interesting as well as explain how the authors help you better understand how to combat stigma and generational differences about sex.
Identify ways in which leadership of a residential health care facility can support the sexual expression of aging adults. Propose methods by which healthcare professionals can incorporate sexual education into routine interactions with aging adults.
Discuss how you, an aging service provider, would educate and train staff working in a residential aging service setting on how to respond to aging adults engaging in sexual relationships. What are challenges you might anticipate in these situations? How might you address staff’s ageist assumptions, attitudes, and personal beliefs regarding older adult sexuality?
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included..
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 4 Discussion
Social Perspectives: Sexuality and Aging
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Senior Housing Trends and Social Capital
In your initial post, respond to the following prompts:
Describe sociocultural and economic impacts of housing trends for seniors that surprised you. Analyze why these impacts and trends surprised you.
Differentiate the impact the Baby Boomer generation will have on the senior housing industry. What impacts will there be on aging service providers such as a nursing home administrator or a nurse practitioner working with the aging population?
What senior housing option would you recommend to a loved one based on what you learned from the readings and your analysis?
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of senior living options that are currently available to aging adults.
Describe the role senior housing has in offering social capital to seniors.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Long-Term Care – Cultural Care
In your initial post, respond to the following prompts:
Discuss the concept of cultural change in long-term care organizations through healthcare reform.
Identify barriers to cultural change in long-term care organizations and discuss what you found surprising.
Identify solutions you would employ as a service provider for aging adults to achieve higher quality of care in long-term care.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 5 Discussion
Social Perspectives: Social Capital and Senior Living Housing Trends
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Cost of Long-Term Care and Reimbursement
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your initial post:
Describe what surprised you in the learning materials around the cost of long-term care.
Explain the financial challenges and realities that older adults face as they age.
Describe the ways in which long-term care is paid for by aging adults and patterns over time. How would this impact your work as the leader of a long-term care organization?
Nursing home care is common and costly. Describe how accountable care organization (ACO) payment models have incentives for care that is better coordinated and less reliant on acute settings.
Describe ways in which long-term care is reimbursed for services and the impacts of pay-for-performance models. Does this have the potential to improve care for this high-cost population?
As a leader of a long-term care organization, do you think it is cost effective to provide a more comfortable setting through cultural change?
Does the pay-for-performance model for reimbursement have advantages?
How do low reimbursement rates impact the quality of care delivered to aging adults living in a long-term care setting?
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Medicaid Spend Down and Ethical Viewpoints
After reading Payne (2015), respond to the following prompts in your original post:
Describe what the author refers to with the phrase Medicaid planning.
Describe ethical factors related to Medicare planning and spending down assets to qualify. Provide an argument for those who support this and those who oppose.
What are the consequences to the healthcare industry if an aging adult is allowed to “spend down” to access Medicaid to cover health care costs (that is, increasing costs and diminished quality)?
How would this impact you as a leader of a long-term care organization and your ability to care for aging adults?
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 6 Discussion
Management Challenges in Operating Long-Term Care
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Challenges Operating Long-Term Care Organizations
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your initial post:
Discuss challenges that long-term care communities face. What makes these challenges more prevalent in long-term care?
Identify trends and root causes of these challenges. Are there possible solutions to these causes?
Analyze labor challenges within long-term care and possible causes of the challenges.
Explain federal policy gaps for addressing disparities among long-term care organizations.
Are there solutions you would implement as a leader in a long-term care facility? Provide examples of how you would lead an aging service organization through these challenges.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Disparities Within Long-Term Care
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your original post:
Identify differences in the quality of care residents receive in long-term care facilities and discuss why.
Discuss the disparities within long-term care and what factors you find surprising as an aging servie provider.
Discuss root causes connected to these factors, and discuss why.
What differences between rural and urban health care offerings did you find interesting? Why?
Identify unique challenges aging veterans experience in long-term care settings. Discuss possible strategies you would explore as an aging service provider.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 7 Discussion
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Cost of Chronic Illness
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your initial post:
Managing chronic illness is a major challenge for the U.S. healthcare system. This challenge is often related to an inability to control the choices people make (for example, diabetics who choose a poor diet that later exacerbates their health complications).
From the readings, identify two factors associated with healthcare spending that must be addressed. Why did you choose those two factors?
What is a possible solution to efficiently and effectively manage the care of the chronically ill? Use the readings and/or video to support your answer.
Describe the current burden of chronic mental illness on our healthcare system.
What factors related to mental health disparities and cost did you find surprising?
Discuss how these challenges would impact you as an aging service provider and leader in a long-term care organization.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Economic and Social Cost of Dementia
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your original post:
Consider the multiple costs of dementia. The impact of dementia on individuals, as well as on their families, is significant; but what about the costs that ripple through the healthcare system, as well as through society? Describe the economic and emotional costs dementia has on multiple levels.
As a service provider for aging adults, how do these costs impact your ability to care for aging adults? Discuss the financial burden of dementia and the cost in a residential setting.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 8 Discussion
Political Perspectives Social Policy Programs and History
If your first name begins with the letters A-M: Topic 1 – Accountable Care Organization: Challenges, Goals, and Intended Outcomes
The accountable care organization (ACO) is a rapidly growing organizational model with the direct goals of improving patient outcomes and restraining healthcare costs. Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your original post.
Explain what an ACO is as well as the healthcare professionals and organizations it includes.
Describe the role of the ACO and its intended outcomes.
Describe the challenges of achieving the overall goals of ACOs (such as multidisciplinary collaboration and reducing healthcare costs) or the implementation challenges of ACOs (such as the lack of technological systems to integrate communication among ACO professionals).
Include an explanation of why the goals have been difficult to accomplish.
Discuss why it has been difficult to implement ACO strategies.
Discuss challenges and benefits an ACO would have on an aging service provider.
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
If your first name begins with the letters N-Z: Topic 2 – Technology Uses in Caring for Aging Adults and Who Pays for It
Using the learning materials to support your claims, respond to the following prompts in your original post. For this discussion, focus on an emerging technology or trend, not a technological device. For example, one technological trend is the increasing availability of online ordering and delivery to the home.
Research and present an emerging technology or trend worth investing in to improve future housing, healthcare, and/or technological advancements for aging individuals and their families in the United States.
What are the positive and negative impacts this technology may have?
When considering this technology or trend, who should pay for technological infrastructure in the healthcare system?
How might technology assist you as an aging service provider to do your job (i.e., track trends, reduce labor costs, ensure efficiency, etc.)?
Your initial post should be 500 to 700 words, with one to two supporting references included.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 1 Journal Entry
Life Course Theory
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about an audience or a presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences, as well as clarify your thinking.
Write about the following in your journal:
Explain the life course theory of aging, and provide specific examples of the powerful connection between individual lives and how historical events and the socioeconomic context impact people’s lives.
Explain the impacts in using this theory when researchers study gerontology.
What major experiential differences between older generations and younger generations did you find?
As an aging service provider, how will this impct your approach in working with aging adults?
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 2 Journal Entry
Creating an Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ Adults
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences as well as clarify your thinking.
Envision yourself in a role as a service provider for aging adults as either a health care practitioner or health care administrator working with aging LGBTQ adults. Use the readings to examine the challenges members of this population might face as they age. Identify two or three ways in which you can assist in developing or creating a more inclusive environment for aging LGBTQ adults. Use the readings to support your suggestions.
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 3 Journal Entry
Sexual Consent Capacity
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences as well as clarify your thinking.
Dementia impacts a person’s capacity to make informed decisions. When we consider a person with dementia with regard to engaging in sexual or intimate situations, the person must be able to have the capacity to make informed decisions. Imagine you are the director of a skilled nursing facility and you have two patients who are married. One resident is cognitively impaired, and the other is not and chooses to engage in sexual and intimate acts with their spouse as they have always done. How do you respond? What is your role in protecting the person with cognitive impairment? Does it matter that they are married and have engaged in these sexual and intimate acts all of their life? What ethical factors related to decision-making and engaging in sexual relationships should be considered? How might you address this situation if the two persons involved are not in a previous relationship but both exhibit cognitive impairment and continue to engage in intimate acts?
our journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 4 Journal Entry
Successful Aging through Senior Housing
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences, as well as clarify your thinking.
Please write about the following in your journal:
What is successful aging? Imagine yourself at 80 years of age. What does successful aging look like to you, and how might it improve your final years in life if you are fortunate to reach 80 years of age?
When considering your aging self, describe the senior living options you would consider for yourself. Provide rationales or reasoning for those options.
At what age do you envision wanting to make the transition (or transitions) from the living arrangements you have now?
What factors might influence your decision to transition to other living arrangements?
What are factors that would deter you from choosing senior living options?
What role do aging service providers have in guiding aging adults seeking aging services?
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 5 Journal Entry
Social Security and the Economic Reality of Aging Adults
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences, as well as clarify your thinking.
Accomplish the following in your journal entry:
Discuss how epidemiological and ethical standpoints interact to create specific problems that lead to challenges stemming from income levels of older adults.
Explain how minority aging adults are more financially disadvantaged compared to non-minority aging groups.
Identify possible solutions as an aging service provider to create financial security among aging adults, such as a public policy forcing retirement savings in addition to Social Security.
Describe the costs and benefits of your proposal from both the individual’s and the society’s perspective.
State whether you believe enforced savings in addition to Social Security is ethical, and explain why.
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 6 Journal Entry
For-Profit versus Nonprofit: Who Does It Best?
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences as well as clarify your thinking.
Describe differences among profit and nonprofit ownerships that you found interesting. Is one better than the other? Do you feel the commitment of quality of care can be trumped by the bottom line? Propose strategies as an aging service provider to address the challenges of long-term care. What challenges would be different or similar to a leader in managing long-term care communities, both profit and non-profit?
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 7 Journal Entry
Informal Caregiving and Non-Paid Roles
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences, as well as clarify your thinking.
Family caregivers provide a significant amount of care and support to their loved ones, often without compensation. The family caregiver role often requires financial and emotional sacrifice.
Explain the role unpaid caregivers have in U.S. society.
Describe a policy solution that would support family caregivers. An example might include a tax deduction for financial expenses incurred by caregivers.
How do you think the cost of the policy solutions they describe should be passed on to taxpayers, and how would you justify this?
Do you think family members should be obligated to care for loved ones with their personal financial resources, or should the cost be supported through tax dollars?
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
HP626 Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives in Gerontology
Week 8 Journal Entry
My Buddy, Mr. Robot
Journal writing provides a nonthreatening way to explore different thoughts, ideas, and topics without being concerned about audience presentation. The process of writing can facilitate reflection and allow you to express your feelings regarding your educational experiences, as well as clarify your thinking.
One of the side effects of artificial intelligence (AI) is less human interaction. Those who support AI use claim it reduces labor costs and increases efficiency.
Write about the following in your journal:
Describe areas where technology such as telemedicine can have a significant impact on reducing costs to the healthcare system.
Consider the balance of potential positive and negative impacts that aging adults may experience with increasing AI use.
How will telemedicine provide quality care compared to in-person care?
How can AI help decrease social isolation? Can it form social connections, or does it leave us with 500 Facebook friends and no one to call for help?
Your journal entry should be 250 to 400 words long. No outside research is expected and, therefore, no references are needed.
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