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Essay Instructions: INTERVIEW OF OLDER ADULT

I. ** Notice: this assignment will consists of three parts: 1. Interview of older adult. 2. Bio-psychosocial evaluation 3. 5 page reflection paper.
II. INSTRUCTIONS: First you will have to interview an elderly person with the questions provided : STEP 1: Life-history interview: are the questions to be used during the interview. These questions will be incorporated to finalize and fill in what is needed for STEP 2 the Bio-psychosocial evaluation assessment paper (this paper needs to be completed and will be faxed). The biopsychosocial evaluation assessment paper (titled: bio-psychosocial evaluation). All information gathered from the “so called interviewee” needs to match the bio-psychosocial assessment and what was “so called asked during the interview.(these questions will be provided as follows:

Life-history interview. Identify an adult who is over age 65, is not a family member or client and is willing to participate in a life history interview. Arrange a time to meet and conduct an in depth interview. Depending on the person’s age and physical health, you may need to conduct the interview in more than one part. Make sure before you conduct the interview, you inform the person that all information will remain confidential inform the person that you will not use any identifying information in the final write-up of the interview. (In the paper you can make up a name).
Interview Questions:
1. Basic demographics: When and where were you born?
2. Tell me about your childhood (hometown, parents, siblings, etc)?
3. Describe your teenage years( school, interests, friendships, etc)?
4. Tell me about your formal and informal education and your work experiences? When did you retire?
5. What were your gender roles in your community? Do you recall any changes around this issue?
6. Tell me about your family life-births, deaths, illnesses , marriages, divorces.
7. What were significant moments or events in your life?
8. What lessons have you learned about life and living?
9. Describe the people who guided or influenced you the most.
10. What risks did you take in life?
11. What regrets or unfilled desires do you have? What dreams/hopes do you have for the future?
12. What are your personal views, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about growing older?
13. What advice about life do you have for people in general? For young people?
14. Where is the interviewee residing, and how long has she/he lived there?
15. Are any illnesses that you know of in your family, if so which ones?
16. Have you ever been hospitalized if so for what reason?
17. What is your ethnicity? Are you bilingual?
18. Do you attend church regularly, if so, what denomination?



III. STEP 3: the final 5 page reflection paper will be written addressing questions provided:


Guidelines for paper.
1. Conduct the interview with the older adult using appropriate social work interviewing skills, knowledge about older adults from a strengths perspective, values and ethical considerations, and conscious use of self.
2. Demonstrate that the selected person is chosen purposefully, not merely by convenience, including the ethnic identity.
3. The paper has to be from the Perspective of a LATIN HISPANIC WOMAN aged in her thirties.


Write a 5 page reflection paper addressing the following points/questions.
1. Describe the person and how you met this older adult.
2. Why did you select this person? What social work skills, values, and knowledge did you use in conducting the interview? What ethical issues did you confront?
3. If you had the opportunity to conduct the interview again, what would you do the same? What would you do differently?(explain)
4. Discuss similarities and differences between your own ethnic/cultural/socio-historical experience and that of the elder. (*once again, the paper is coming from a Hispanic-Mexican American background individual perspective.)
5. Review the interview and determine from the older person’s perspective what she/he considers her/his most significant contribution. Why did you select this issue? What words, phrases, or nonverbal behavior used by the person you were interviewing provided clues as to its prominence?
6. Identify three concepts from the reading, class discussions, etc. about aging that you observed or experienced during the interview and explain the concept. USE APPROPRIATE APA REFERENCING)
***READINGS FROM THE BOOK IS : SOCIAL WORK WITH ELDERS : A BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION: AUTHOR: KATHLEEN MCINNIS-DITTRICH. EDITION 1. ISBN: 0-321-04947-0: (YOU MAY WRITE ABOUT CHAPTERS 2-5:DEMOGRAPHINGS OF AGING, THE GROWTH OF THE OLDER ADULT, CHAPTER 2-IN THE BOOK: BIOLOGICAL CHANGES AND THE PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF ELDERS( biological changes that accompany aging, skin hair, nails, the neurological system, the cardiovascular system, sensory system, the urinary tract system. Etc. ): CHAPTER 3 -PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENTS TO AGING( intelligence, personality, memory, learning,.)**material is faxed*
7. Conclusion. Summarize the interview and add your reflections about learning from this older adult. Were there any surprising elements in your interaction?

Essay Instructions: INTERVIEW OF OLDER ADULT

I. ** Notice: this assignment will consists of three parts: 1. Interview of older adult. 2. Bio-psychosocial evaluation 3. 5 page reflection paper.
II. INSTRUCTIONS: First you will have to interview an elderly person with the questions provided : STEP 1: Life-history interview: are the questions to be used during the interview. These questions will be incorporated to finalize and fill in what is needed for STEP 2 the Bio-psychosocial evaluation assessment paper (this paper needs to be completed and will be faxed). The biopsychosocial evaluation assessment paper (titled: bio-psychosocial evaluation). All information gathered from the “so called interviewee” needs to match the bio-psychosocial assessment and what was “so called asked during the interview.(these questions will be provided as follows:

Life-history interview. Identify an adult who is over age 65, is not a family member or client and is willing to participate in a life history interview. Arrange a time to meet and conduct an in depth interview. Depending on the person’s age and physical health, you may need to conduct the interview in more than one part. Make sure before you conduct the interview, you inform the person that all information will remain confidential inform the person that you will not use any identifying information in the final write-up of the interview. (In the paper you can make up a name).
Interview Questions:
1. Basic demographics: When and where were you born?
2. Tell me about your childhood (hometown, parents, siblings, etc)?
3. Describe your teenage years( school, interests, friendships, etc)?
4. Tell me about your formal and informal education and your work experiences? When did you retire?
5. What were your gender roles in your community? Do you recall any changes around this issue?
6. Tell me about your family life-births, deaths, illnesses , marriages, divorces.
7. What were significant moments or events in your life?
8. What lessons have you learned about life and living?
9. Describe the people who guided or influenced you the most.
10. What risks did you take in life?
11. What regrets or unfilled desires do you have? What dreams/hopes do you have for the future?
12. What are your personal views, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings about growing older?
13. What advice about life do you have for people in general? For young people?
14. Where is the interviewee residing, and how long has she/he lived there?
15. Are any illnesses that you know of in your family, if so which ones?
16. Have you ever been hospitalized if so for what reason?
17. What is your ethnicity? Are you bilingual?
18. Do you attend church regularly, if so, what denomination?



III. STEP 3: the final 5 page reflection paper will be written addressing questions provided:


Guidelines for paper.
1. Conduct the interview with the older adult using appropriate social work interviewing skills, knowledge about older adults from a strengths perspective, values and ethical considerations, and conscious use of self.
2. Demonstrate that the selected person is chosen purposefully, not merely by convenience, including the ethnic identity.
3. The paper has to be from the Perspective of a LATIN HISPANIC WOMAN aged in her thirties.


Write a 5 page reflection paper addressing the following points/questions.
1. Describe the person and how you met this older adult.
2. Why did you select this person? What social work skills, values, and knowledge did you use in conducting the interview? What ethical issues did you confront?
3. If you had the opportunity to conduct the interview again, what would you do the same? What would you do differently?(explain)
4. Discuss similarities and differences between your own ethnic/cultural/socio-historical experience and that of the elder. (*once again, the paper is coming from a Hispanic-Mexican American background individual perspective.)
5. Review the interview and determine from the older person’s perspective what she/he considers her/his most significant contribution. Why did you select this issue? What words, phrases, or nonverbal behavior used by the person you were interviewing provided clues as to its prominence?
6. Identify three concepts from the reading, class discussions, etc. about aging that you observed or experienced during the interview and explain the concept. USE APPROPRIATE APA REFERENCING)
***READINGS FROM THE BOOK IS : SOCIAL WORK WITH ELDERS : A BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION: AUTHOR: KATHLEEN MCINNIS-DITTRICH. EDITION 1. ISBN: 0-321-04947-0: (YOU MAY WRITE ABOUT CHAPTERS 2-5:DEMOGRAPHINGS OF AGING, THE GROWTH OF THE OLDER ADULT, CHAPTER 2-IN THE BOOK: BIOLOGICAL CHANGES AND THE PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF ELDERS( biological changes that accompany aging, skin hair, nails, the neurological system, the cardiovascular system, sensory system, the urinary tract system. Etc. ): CHAPTER 3 -PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENTS TO AGING( intelligence, personality, memory, learning,.)**material is faxed*
7. Conclusion. Summarize the interview and add your reflections about learning from this older adult. Were there any surprising elements in your interaction?

Essay Instructions: INTERVIEW PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS
For this assignment you will interview four children, all with varying ages. This assignment is to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of each stage. The ideal ages of these children should be a preschooler, a student in elementary, middle, and high school.
Your five interview questions should be open-ended and appropriate for all of the age groups. Examples would be: What makes a good friend? Is it wrong to steal? Why or why not?
Write out the answers exactly as they are given to you. Include a summary of 300 words or less per child, linking each child’s answers to his/her age group. You may find that even though a child is in preschool, he/she may display characteristics of a child in elementary school, or vice versa. If this happens, be sure to include these findings in your summary as well.
Your summaries should be APA formatted; including cover page, and reference list. Don’t forget your introduction and concluding paragraphs.
STRUCTURE: Points
? Introduction clear and interesting 4 3 2 1 0
? Conclusion is objective and rises from content 4 3 2 1 0
? Each paragraph is clear and contains one major idea 4 3 2 1 0
? Paragraph transitions are clear and maintain flow of thought 4 3 2 1 0

STRUCTURE SUBTOTAL: ______________

CONTENT:
? Assignment parameters (length, subject, objectives) are met 4 3 2 1 0
? Five open-ended questions included 4 3 2 1 0
? In-depth understanding of developmental stages demonstrated 4 3 2 1 0
? Assertions clearly supported, specific examples given 4 3 2 1 0
CONTENT SUBTOTAL: _____________

GRAMMAR AND MECHANICS:
? Sentence fluency coherent, unified, varied 4 3 2 1 0
? Sentence structure ??" complete, clear and concise 4 3 2 1 0
? Punctuation 4 3 2 1 0
? Spelling 4 3 2 1 0
? Words ??" precise, unambiguous, appropriate 4 3 2 1 0
GRAMMAR/MECHANICS SUBTOTAL: _____________

RESEARCH AND SOURCES:
? Relevant materials relating to the topic 4 3 2 1 0
? Effective research to support the findings 4 3 2 1 0
? Appropriate depth and length of paper 4 3 2 1 0
? Sources legitimate and traceable 4 3 2 1 0
? Number of sources/citations appropriate for paper 4 3 2 1 0
RESEARCH SUBTOTAL: _____________

FORMAT:
? General appearance readable and neat 4 3 2 1 0
? Title Page, as stipulated; effective title 4 3 2 1 0
? Style-correct APA, margins, font/type style; pagination 4 3 2 1 0
? Reference page correctly formatted to APA, and alphabetized 4 3 2 1 0

FORMAT SUBTOTAL: _____________

Essay Instructions: Interview questions and transcript are attached.
The task is: "You are required to write a biography on an Australian, preferably someone who you can interview, who has chosen to live their life for God".
It was difficult to find a person I know who fits this description so I chose a friend of my mother who helps refugees new to Australia from the Bosnian war who need help settling in. (refer Interview transcript).

The five key features of a biography are required:
Date of Birth
Childhood
Major events
Achievements
Date of Death (NA)

The marking key is:
The student has arranged the interview information into a biography that has, followed the correct format, is well written, correct spelling, grammar,punctuation (6 marks)
Quotes used where relevant (1 mark)
Biography clearly articulates;
How the human spiritual condition is reflected in the person's lifestyle choice (5 marks)
Questions and experiences that led the person to dedicate their life to God, or the wider community (5 marks)
The persons point of view about the role of religion in Australian society is evident (3 marks)
How assisting others has led them to a deeper relationship with God and others to enable them to become the best person they can be (3 marks)