Older Adult Interview

Professor Garbowski

3/26/2014

Contemporary Health 1

Background

Mrs. Elizabeth Toland; 67 years of age; born PA currently resides in Margate, NJ; occupancy teacher Atlantic City High School freshman English; married 44 years with two children both out of college; met husband while waitressing in Atlantic City; old profession was public relations till pregnancy. Mrs. Toland was my English 1 teacher freshman year of high school.

Interview

Q1. Please tell me about your childhood, family and school life.

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Q2. Do you consider yourself old? At what age or (stages) did you notice that you were getting older?

Q3. What is the most important historical event or period that you lived through? How did it influence you personally?

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Q4. What is the biggest change you have seen in how people conduct their everyday lives?

Q5. What have been the best years of your life so far? What are your plans for the future?

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Q6. How are younger people today different from when you were that age?

Q7. What advice would you give young people to help them prepare for their old age.

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Q8. Have you ever experience any negative attitudes or discrimination because of your age? Please explain.

Q9. What do you wish you knew then that you know now?

Q10. As you grow older what are you mot afraid of?