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.
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