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Title: Life Course Perspective


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Life Course Perspective CSWE/SAGE-SW Faculty
Development Institute
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Questions we need to answer
  • Do particular historical times shape the
    opportunity structure of individuals with certain
    personal characteristics?
  • Are life events, adaptive resources and aging
    experiences different for some individuals in
    certain Sociohistorical times?
  • How does membership in a specific birth cohort
    shape the aging experience?
  • How, within cohorts, does the aging experience
    differ by membership in systems of
    inequality-gender, race, and class?

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Life Course Perspective
  • The aging process is affected by individual
    attributes
  • Sociohistorical times shape opportunity
    structures differently
  • Membership in different birth cohorts shapes the
    aging experience
  • Sociohistorical periods shape the aging
    experience of cohorts

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A Broader view of aging
  • Personal Biographies
  • Sociocultural factors
  • Sociocultural times

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Key Issues
  • Advantages of using this perspective in research
  • Effects of historical events on the aging process
  • Individual differences based on Sociohistorical
    times
  • Cohort effects on the aging process

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Variables to Consider
  • Cohort
  • Income
  • Social roles
  • Gender
  • Sexual orientation
  • Ethnicity
  • Race
  • Cultural identification
  • Friendship patterns
  • Religion, spirituality
  • Value system
  • Language
  • Community
  • Work status
  • Occupation
  • Family composition

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Additional Variables
  • Formal education
  • Living arrangements
  • Health status
  • Functional independence
  • Generation as American
  • Degree of acculturation
  • Personal interests
  • Personality
  • Dietary practices
  • Time (historical time, time in ones life)

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Life Transitions
  • Movement or passage from one position, stage,
    stage, concept, subject, etc. to another
  • A passage or change of this kind transition
    from adolescence to adulthood
  • A bridge, a boundary between two stages of
    greater stability
  • A process of change, a shift from one life
    structure to another, terminating the existing
    one and creating the possibility of a new one.

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Life Transitions
  • Moving from one state of certainty to another,
    with intervals of uncertainty and change
  • Transitions can be characterized by
  • Time periods
  • Role shifts
  • Transitional or marker event
  • Cultural, ethnic, and social class-differences
    profoundly influence the time and extent of the
    changes required

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Life Transitions RequireChanges in
  • Self-Image
  • Ways of looking at the World
  • How we process information
  • How we relate to others
  • How we use environmental resources
  • Personal goals

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Transitions in the Later Years Untimely
Widowhood Grief Bereavement
  • Grief and Mourning
  • Grieving Before the Death
  • Grieving After the Death
  • Surviving and Rebuilding
  • Bridging the Past
  • Living with the Present
  • Finding a Path into the Future

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The Late Adult YearsComing to Terms with
Limitations
  • Transition to Late-Adulthood
  • Bridging the Past
  • Crossing the Line
  • Entering Late Adulthood
  • Retirement as a Bridge
  • Leaving the World of Work
  • Retirement as a Formal Event
  • Adjustment to Post-Retirement
  • Retirement for Women
  • Retirement for Singles

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The Final Years
  • Health Impairment Physical and Mental
    Restraints
  • Physical and Physiological Conditions
  • Mental and Emotional Deficits
  • Dealing with Health Limitations
  • Starting the Path to Institutionalization
  • Inability to Manage on Ones Own
  • Making the Change
  • Death of a Spouse and Survival of the Mate
  • The Anticipatory Period
  • The Process of Dying
  • Death and Its Aftermath
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