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Describe what a family is, based on your own experiences and preconceived notion of the definition of family. Then compare this to some of the discussed families in Chapter 1 of Hanson & Lynch, Understanding Families. Chapter 2 outlines diversity in contemporary families and highlights many of the complex issues that may be easily overlooked.
Due to the increasing percentage of older adult clients in the U.S., it is imperative that healthcare providers assess and confront their own attitudes and perceptions toward older adults.
In your initial post, address the following:
Describe ageism and its impact on societal views of older adult clients.
Explain how ageism can influence the healthcare provisions of older adult clients.
As a healthcare provider, how can one best assess and confront attitudes, perceptions, behaviors, and biases toward older adults?
Using your knowledge on the way families are formed, select ONE way and create a google slide/ PowerPoint presentation displaying the following information.
State the name and give a detailed explanation of how the selected way helps to form a family. (8pts)
Using illustration/examples explain how the selected way can have one positive and one negative effect on the
Individual (4pts)
Family (4pts)
3. Research and insert a snippet of an article that expresses that the selected way is still present and practiced today. (4pts)
Select a private or communal space in your home and describe its features, including size and decor. How do the technologies in this space affect how you relate to others who live there and enhance or detract from comfort and well-being? Discuss the room’s use and explain what makes it comfortable, restful, private, intimate, efficient and convenient–or not! Say how Covid has affected your experience of this space.
Be sure to draw from Witold Rybczynski and Bill Bryson to support your ideas about comfort, well-being, intimacy and privacy–or the lack thereof. And refer to to the essays by Sonia Chung, Mona Simpson and Colin Harrison for examples of descriptive writing about home spaces.
Definition of home – communal or private space that reflects its inhabitants and serves their needs
Preview statement – Identify the room you are describing, that you will be talking about its use, comfort and what it says about you & relations to others