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For your term paper, you will compare the life course of 4 older adults (age 55 or older): one nursing home or assisted living facility resident, one of your older relatives, friends, or acquaintances (e.g., a grandparent or great-grandparent), and two contemporary persons of your choice based on their biography or autobiography (e.g., Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years). If you do not know any older adults personally, you can interview 2 nursing home/assisted living residents. Moreover, you also have the option to replace both of the autobiographical accounts with another set of “live” interviews and then compare the lives of 3 older adults.
More specifically, your task will be to interview 1 (or 2) older nursing home or assisted living facility resident(s) each week for a total of 8 weeks and compare the interviews with interviews conducted with 1 (or 2) of your older relatives, friends, or acquaintances (e.g., a grandparent or great-grandparent), and two biographies or autobiographies of your choice. At the beginning of the semester, you will be paired with 1 (or 2) nursing home or assisted living facility resident(s) at one of the nursing homes/assisted living facilities that are listedbelow. After receiving volunteer training, which is provided at each facility and also in class, you will visit the resident each week for at least 1 hour to ask him/her about his/her life. (You do not need to interview the respondent for 1 hour but may take part of the time to make small talk or tell the respondent about your own life.) You will start with a life history review, i.e., you will ask the resident about his/her past life in chronological order, starting with his/her childhood. The life history review chart will help you to conduct those interviews, which may take several sessions (take your time). After completing the life history review, you can then ask about issues that were neglected or that you may want to explore in further detail.
You will conduct the same kind of interviews with one of your older relatives for comparison purposes. Therefore, you might want to choose a relative that is of the same gender and approximately of the same age as your nursing home/assisted living interviewee if possible. You may conduct the interviews with your relative by phone if necessary, but all interviews with the resident are to be conducted face-to-face.
You may tape-record the interviews, but it is not required that you transcribe the interviews verbatim. However, immediately after each interview you need to write down what happened during the interview and what the respondent said IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE. The following are guidelines for writing interview notes.
1. Start all interview notes on a new page. The heading should identify the respondent, the interview number, and the date (e.g. “First Interview with Grandma on January 28 between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m.”). Make sure that all participants remain anonymous. If you want to use names give respondents pseudonyms.
2. Write down the location of the interview for each interview (regardless of number of visits).
3. Describe the environment of the respondent even if you do the interviews by phone (does not need to be repeated if the environment does not change in subsequent visits).
4. Describe the respondent in detail, i.e., age, gender, race, physical appearance, etc. (only for the first visit).
5. Describe what the respondent is doing when you arrive. Give a physical description of the participant – clothes etc.
6. Give your impression of the participant – (mental alertness, physical demeanor, etc.)
7. Describe any events that seem noteworthy during the interview in chronological order (e.g., visits from other persons, medication dispensed, frequent stops due to fatigue, etc.)
8. Report the interview in chronological order and in as much detail as possible.
9. Include any information that you think would be noteworthy.
After January 15th you will arrange to do your first interviews and write your first set of interview and analysis notes, which will be due on Thursday, January 29th, during regular class time together with the signed informed consent form(s). Please hand in your first set of interview notes as a hard copy to me during regular class time and ALSO via e-Learning in Canvas. I will review the notes and the analysis and return them to you with my comments. All remaining sets of interview and analysis notes should be submitted via e-Learning. I expect to receive one set of interview and analysis notes per week, but the last opportunity to submit sets of interview and analysis notes is on April 16 before class. Please contact me if you have questions or experience any difficulties with the life history project.
More specifically, your task will be to interview 1 (or 2) older nursing home or assisted living facility resident(s) each week for a total of 8 weeks and compare the interviews with interviews conducted with 1 (or 2) of your older relatives, friends, or acquaintances (e.g., a grandparent or great-grandparent), and two biographies or autobiographies of your choice. At the beginning of the semester, you will be paired with 1 (or 2) nursing home or assisted living facility resident(s) at one of the nursing homes/assisted living facilities that are listedbelow. After receiving volunteer training, which is provided at each facility and also in class, you will visit the resident each week for at least 1 hour to ask him/her about his/her life. (You do not need to interview the respondent for 1 hour but may take part of the time to make small talk or tell the respondent about your own life.) You will start with a life history review, i.e., you will ask the resident about his/her past life in chronological order, starting with his/her childhood. The life history review chart will help you to conduct those interviews, which may take several sessions (take your time). After completing the life history review, you can then ask about issues that were neglected or that you may want to explore in further detail.
You will conduct the same kind of interviews with one of your older relatives for comparison purposes. Therefore, you might want to choose a relative that is of the same gender and approximately of the same age as your nursing home/assisted living interviewee if possible. You may conduct the interviews with your relative by phone if necessary, but all interviews with the resident are to be conducted face-to-face.
You may tape-record the interviews, but it is not required that you transcribe the interviews verbatim. However, immediately after each interview you need to write down what happened during the interview and what the respondent said IN AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE. The following are guidelines for writing interview notes.
1. Start all interview notes on a new page. The heading should identify the respondent, the interview number, and the date (e.g. “First Interview with Grandma on January 28 between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m.”). Make sure that all participants remain anonymous. If you want to use names give respondents pseudonyms.
2. Write down the location of the interview for each interview (regardless of number of visits).
3. Describe the environment of the respondent even if you do the interviews by phone (does not need to be repeated if the environment does not change in subsequent visits).
4. Describe the respondent in detail, i.e., age, gender, race, physical appearance, etc. (only for the first visit).
5. Describe what the respondent is doing when you arrive. Give a physical description of the participant – clothes etc.
6. Give your impression of the participant – (mental alertness, physical demeanor, etc.)
7. Describe any events that seem noteworthy during the interview in chronological order (e.g., visits from other persons, medication dispensed, frequent stops due to fatigue, etc.)
8. Report the interview in chronological order and in as much detail as possible.
9. Include any information that you think would be noteworthy.
After January 15th you will arrange to do your first interviews and write your first set of interview and analysis notes, which will be due on Thursday, January 29th, during regular class time together with the signed informed consent form(s). Please hand in your first set of interview notes as a hard copy to me during regular class time and ALSO via e-Learning in Canvas. I will review the notes and the analysis and return them to you with my comments. All remaining sets of interview and analysis notes should be submitted via e-Learning. I expect to receive one set of interview and analysis notes per week, but the last opportunity to submit sets of interview and analysis notes is on April 16 before class. Please contact me if you have questions or experience any difficulties with the life history project.
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