30. AGEING (PART 2)

Question 1

1. Why is Michael devastated?

Answer 1

• he is afraid that he is losing his social roles in Society

Question 2

2. What does Life Course refer to?

Answer 2

• Life Course is a understanding that age is not staged
• an understanding that age is not something fixed
• an understanding that age is like a course
• it understands that age is something very dynamic

Question 3

3. What does Life Course focus on?

Answer 3

• it focuses on the variations and continuities in people’s
  social status
• it focuses on an individual’s participation in various life
  domains
  (from birth to death)

Question 4

4. What does Life Course emphasise?

Answer 4

• the dynamics of social roles

Question 5

5. What are some examples of social roles that the elderly can still be a part of?

Answer 5

• being a student
• being a parent
• being an employee
• being a spouse
• being a member of an organisation

Question 6

6. Can older people have multiple roles?
   What is the importance of this?

Answer 6

• yes
• older people can have multiple roles
• this is because age is dynamic
• these roles are important
• they help people to find meaning
• they improve self-esteem
• people feel recognised
• it helps people to adjust their identity

Question 7

7. How does the Life Course approach help us to have a better understanding of the impact of ageing?

Answer 7

• it allows us to know that the importance of:
  - the multiple roles that the elderly used to have
  - the multiple roles that the elderly currently have
• a better understanding allows us to manage how we
  handle ageing much better

Question 8

8. What are two aspects of time that are related to Life
   Course?

Answer 8

1. Biographical Time
2. Historical Time

Question 9

9. What is Biographical Time?

Answer 9

• it is the personal events in one’s life

EG: relationships
: travelling
: work

Question 10

10. What is another name for Biographical time?

Answer 10

• Personal Time

Question 11

11. What is Historical Time?

Answer 11

• these are the events during a historical period

EG: Second World War
: changing attitudes towards sexuality

Question 12

12. What is another name for Historical Time?

Answer 12

• Cohort Time

Question 13

13. What is the importance of Life Course in Medical Consultations?

Answer 13

• it tackles stereotypes
• it helps us to understand older people as active and social beings
• it helps us to explore a patient’s social history in depth
• this allows better support of the patients

Question 14

14. What does Cultures of Ageing refer to?

Answer 14

• it refers to a new way of life
• this way of life is promoted in contemporary societies
• it is a way of life that focuses on:
  
  • anti old
  • anti ageing
  • products that act against ageing
  • athletics that help prevent ageing
  • fashion that hides ageing
  • helping old people to feel and look young

Question 15

15. What can the elderly people use tools of technology to do?

Answer 15

• they can construct or reconstruct their bodies
• they can adopt new lifestyles in order to look younger

Question 16

16. Who is providing Informal care in this case?

Answer 16

• Christine
• Michael’s Wife

Question 17

17. What is informal care?

Answer 17

• it refers to care that is provided by people who are not
  a part of formal health care institutions
• they can provide this care due to kinship
• or family obligations

EG: spouses, siblings, parents, children, friends

Question 18

18. What kind of challenges and problems can informal carers be faced with?

Answer 18

• they can be overly emotionally invested
• they can emotions such as:
  • tiredness
  • stress
  • isolation
  • depression

Question 19

19. What are the 6 fundamental needs of Informal Carers?

Answer 19

1. Burn Out Prevention
   
   • they need assistance
2. Social Isolation Prevention
   - they need opportunities to socialise with other people
3. Daily Support
   - they need assistance with sopping and other social
   obligations
4. Psychological Support
   
   • they may be depressed
5. Financial Support
   - caring for someone else is expensive
6. Scientific Support
   - informal carers do what they think is right
   - they lack qualifications and knowledge
   - they need training

Question 20

20. What sociological terms would you use to explain Michael’s and Christine’s experiences?

Answer 20

1. Life Course
2. Cultures of Ageing
3. Informal Care
4. Informal Carer’s Challenges

Question 21

21. How does Life Course apply to this case?

Answer 21

• Michael participates in various domains of life
• he performs various social roles
• his life is not static
• he has not entered into a new fixed stage

Question 22

22. How do Cultures of Ageing apply to this case?

Answer 22

• Michael gets together with other older people to do bowling
• he organises field tripes to educate younger people
• he helps them to live a more environmentally friendly
  lifestyle
• he attracts more people to all agree to dye their hair,
  to wear jeans and to wear caps
  (this makes them feel younger)

Question 23

23. How does Informal Care apply to the case?

Answer 23

• Christine is Michael’s Wife
• she is undertaking the role of caregiver
• she is an example of an informal carer
• she is not trained
• she is not paid for the care she provides

Question 24

24. How does the challenges of the Informal Carer apply to this case?

Answer 24

• Christine is very tired
• she feels that she cannot fulfil the obligation to look
  after Michael as effectively as she would like to
• she is afraid that she will fall into a depressive state

Question 25

25. Read through this summary.
    Does everything make sense?

Answer 25

• yes

Question 26

26. Answer this SBA question?

Answer 26

• B
• there is nothing in this case that states that he is acting like this to try and feel younger
• therefore, the answer cannot include culture of ageing