SO 310 - Aging in America

Interactivity: Discussion Board

Final Assessment: None

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• View aging as a biopsychosocial process rather than a simple event and understand self, family, colleagues, and clients as aging individuals.
• Differentiate between normal changes of aging and illness states common in aging individuals. 
• Apply major theories of aging from biology, psychology, and sociology to interpret how people age in U.S. society.
• Identify societal, community, and health-care resources for positive and successful aging. 
• Identify some of the political, social, and economic issues important to health-care systems as they deal with the needs of aging clients. 
• Recognize the wide range of existing alternatives for delivery of health care to aging people and identify opportunities for development of additional services based on identified needs and societal trends.