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GERONTOLOGY
Course Objectives:
This course will enable the students to :
- Understand , aware and sensitized to issues related to care of the elderly
- Understand the theoretical perspectives of the aging process.
- Execute the awareness about the needs and challenges facing the current generation of older adults,
- Apply social/political perspectives, behavioral, and biological aspects of aging,
- Remember the ways aging affects areas such as sexuality, family relations, personality, and creativity,
- Understand existing and potential careers in the field of aging, and
- Understand Factors that would contribute to successful aging.
Course Outcomes (COs):
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Course Outcomes
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Learning and Teaching Strategies |
Assignment Strategies |
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Student will– COHD 131: Appraise the stereotypes, demographic data, and theoretical perspective of aging COHD 132: Support the health challenges and other concerns of aging. COHD 133: Value and support the adjustment and changing life style in old age. COHD 134: Appraise the policies and programmes for elderly COHD 135: Formulate strategies for positive aging by identifying the resources and barriers.
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Approaches in Teaching: Interactive Lectures, Mock Activity, Power Point Presentation, Discussion with lectures.
Learning activities for the Students: Self learning assignments, field practicals. |
Quiz. PPT, Group projects, assignments, CA test , Semester End Examination. |
- Overview of gerontology, stereotypes about the elderly
- Emergence and scope of gerontology; Demographic profile of the aged in Indian Context; Concept of aging - Social, medical, psychological, occupational changes
- Theoretical Perspectives of Aging – Disengagement theory, activity theory, Human Development theory, Continuity theory, Age Stratification theory, Labeling theory
- Growth & diversity in older population
- Impact of aging on Biological/Physiological aspects; Psychological, Economic, Social and Spiritual aspects,
- Health Challenges and Care – physical, psychological, social problems, Factors influencing on health status and care required for aged
- Family pattern, Changing roles and the aging family-conjugal, Husband-wife relations, sexual adjustment; marital adjustment; Intergenerational family relations-Grand parenthood, Widowhood/Singlehood; Alternative life styles, Remarriage in later years
- Work, Leisure and retirement patterns – Work-meaning of work, individual motivation; Leisure; Retirement – benefits, Attitude towards retirement; Poverty, poor health retirement and suicide; abandonment, liberation and diachronic solidarity
- Care of the Aged –- Policies and programmes, govt. and non-govt. agencies working for aged
- Categories of services Housing, health, leisure time activities; Institution for the aged- Day care Centers; Economic programmes - Re-engagement, Retirement pension, death cum gratuity, provident fund, health insurances, insurance scheme, investment and taxation and property
- Senior citizen Bill Registration
- Career opportunities in Gerontology
- Mental health and aging
- Diversity in aging : Gender, racial, & socioeconomic Disparities in health
- Recreation and the aged
- Seniors as mentors and advisors
- Key to positive aging
SUGGESTED TEXTBOOKS:
- Santrock, W. John (2007). Life Span Development, Sixth Edition,
McGraw Hill, New York
- Berk, L. (2006).Child development, Allyn and Bacon, New York
- Hurlock E.B. (1978). Child development, Megraw Hill Publishing Company
- Sharma, M. L. &Dak, T.M. (1987). Aging in India: Challenge for the Society, Delhi: Janta Pub.
SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:
- Blau, Z. (1983). Old Age in Changing Society, New York: New View Prints.
- Chowdhry Paul D. (1992). Aging and the Aged, New Delhi: Inter India Pub.
- Cox, H. (1984). Later Life: The Reality of Aging, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc.
- Desai, K.G. (1985). Problems of the Retired People in Greater Bombay, Bombay : TISS, Series No.27.
- Kennedy, C. (1988). Human Development, New York: Macmillan.
- Selin, H. (2014). Parenting across cultures: Childrearing, motherhood and fatherhood in non-western cultures. Springer, Dordrecht.
- Lamb, S. E. (Ed.). (2012). Aging and the Indian diaspora: Cosmopolitan families in India and abroad. Orient Black swan Private Ltd.
- Kapadia, S. (2017). Adolescence in urban India: Cultural construction in a society in transition. New Delhi: Springer.
E-RESOURCES:
- file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/Human%20Development_%20A%20Life-Span%20View%20(%20PDFDrive%20).pdf
- file:///C:/Users/HP/Downloads/Handbook%20of%20gerontology_%20evidence-based%20approaches%20to%20theory,%20practice,%20and%20policy%20(%20PDFDrive%20).pdf
REFERENCE JOURNALS
- The Journal of Gerontology, https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology
