GRT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Medication Therapy Management, Water Aerobics, Birdwatching
20 Aug 2016
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Seniors" activities and occupations: self-care, productivity, leisure/recreation and. Absolute number of people, younger people volunteer more. Reasons for pursuing volunteer work is different than youth. Disengagement theory: normal and inevitable for elderly people to disengage from their life. Cumming & henry (1961) put forth this argument as a systematic way of understanding the mutual social withdrawal. Early medical, psychological and social models emphasized the inevitability of decline and dependency in later life. Critics argued that elderly people wanted to stay involved. Biomedical eld began to reorganize their information with respect to aging. Made a distinction between the process/transitions of aging (primary or normal aging) and progression of disease and disability in later age. Successful aging: interplay between social engagement health and functioning. Productive aging: bene ts of participation of older adults in activities such as volunteering, paid work and care giving. Activities that allow people to make a social and economic contribution to their community and society.
