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CURRENT SEMESTER COURSES

LINK TO UNC CHARLOTTE'S ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY -- APPLIES TO ALL STUDENTS IN ALL COURSES.

* = required reading for LBST 1102

    General course Links

• SYLLABUS

• LBST BIO-CARD

   Media and Society

• * Ageing and Old age in fiction film -- this must be accessed through Atkins Library Electronic Course Reserves

• * The Long Tail

• Brief overview of development of mass media

• detailed timeline of mass media development

• 540,000 miles and still ticking

• dove evolution

• Rodney King Video

• Dallas Television Show opening

• dove pro-age advertising

• Maxwell House Coffee Vintage Commercial -- You Tube

   THE PHENOMENON OF AGING

• * scientists probe the secret to long life -- nbc nightly news

• Living old on pbs

• 2005 WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON AGING

• OLDER AMERICAN'S ACT

   Quality of Later Life

• * SUCCESSFUL AGING:  what does the good life look like? (May have to use search box to find article)

• * MSNBC AGing in america slideshow

• cohabitation findings

    Societal ATTITUDES TOWARDS OLD AGE

• * Welcome to Mississauga -- Youtube

• Remember song -- Youtube

• the Age Discrimination in Employment act of 1967

    Problems and Potentials of Aging

• * INSIDE THE BRAIN:  AN INTERACTIVE TOUR

• * My Name is Lisa -- YouTube 2007 short film winner

• * AGING WELL:  FELLOWSHIP TRAINS PHYSICIANS IN THE ART OF TAKING CARE OF ELDERLY PEOPLE

• * Sexuality in later life -- MSNBC report

• * PRIMARY CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE WHY DO DOCTORS FIND IT SO HARD?  The Gerontologist 42:6, 2002 pp. 835-842. (access via Atkins Library)

• 2009 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures

• MSNBC Latest on Alzheimer's Disease

   Retirement:  American Dream or Dilemma

• * lifecourse timeline of daisy and hoke (print and bring to class)

• * NOT QUITTING THEIR DAY JOB  Go to link then click on:  What retirement? Here are a dozen notables who let 65 just fly by.

• * older drivers and automobile safety -- aarp research

• Retirement Revolution Video by PBS

• over the next hill discussion questions -- Not Fall 2009

   Living Environments in Later Life

• * MSNBC video clip on Geriatric Care Managers

• * The Greenhouse ALTERNATIVE  -- youtube

• * NY Times Article -- A Grass-Roots Effort to grow old at home

• Experiencing life in a nursing home -- New york times 8/09

• Horton Foote (Writer of Trip to Bountiful) obituary -- March 4, 2009

• AARP Livable communities report

• ASSISTED LIVING:  10 GREAT IDEAS (MIGHT HAVE TO USE SEARCH BOX)

• AN OVERVIEW OF ASSISTED LIVING:  2004

• dECLARATION OF INDEPENDENTS -- aarp REPORT ON bEACON HILL VILLAGE (MIGHT HAVE TO USE SEARCH BOX)

• BEACON HILLvILLAGE

• elderspirit community in abingdon, VA

• Sun City in Charlotte, NC

• Laguna Woods, CA

• Pot Collective Sprouts In Retirement Community

    IN THE ARMS OF ELDERS

• * Discussion Questions for In the Arms of Elders

    The Experience of Dying

• * Aging with Dignity - Five Wishes

• * Home Funeral Movement -- MSNBC Link

• * life expectancy by country (print and bring to class)

• ALS Association Website

    LIFE IS SO GOOD

• *dISCUSSION qUESTIONS

    APA Format Information

• apa format for references

    Careers in Aging information

• UNC Charlotte Gerontology Program Website

• AGHE's Careers in aging information -- a fantastic resource for those considering a career in aging

• Why study aging?

• how can you find more about the field of aging?

• recent career in aging related articles

• Exploring careers in Gerontology

    2100 General course INformation

• SYLLABUS

• 2100 Bio-Card

• Harry R. Moody Website

• ATkins Library Website for this course

• Group Discussion/Presentation Evaluation Form

• Exploring careers in Gerontology

  2100 Service Learning documents -- Photo ring and non-photo-ring versions

• detailed instructions for Service Learning

• Summary of Communication Interventions

•  HUMAN SUBJECTS TUTORIAL

• Detailed Instructions for Digitally Recording your conversation

• detailed instructions for digital camera equipment

• Site Information

• At-Site Orientation Options

• Record of site visits

• seRVICE LEARNING INTERVENTIONS ASSESSMENT -- you will need three copies of this

• conversation review form

• About the conversation partner form

• In-Class Presentation Guidelines

• Participant/guardian consent forms are collected by site

    2100 Other helpful links for chapter sections (please note there are not links for every section of the course)

       alzheimer's disease

• Alzheimer's Association Website

       BCII:  aging healthcare and society

• Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily living (adl)

• Lawton and Brody's Instrumental activities of daily living (iadl)

       should families provide for their own?

• Medicaid estate recovery fact sheet from aarp

       should adults be protected from bad choices?

• Elder Justice Act

• tHE PHILADELPHIA gERIATRIC CENTER MORALE SCale

       should people have the choice to end their lives?

• Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act

• safeguards of the death with dignity act

• Death with Dignity National Center

      what is the future for Social security?

• Social Security Administration's website

• More social security information...

• Current Maximum Taxable INcome under Social Security

• understanding price indexing of social security

• understanding the legacy debt as written by diamond and orszag

BCiii:  Social and economic outlook for an aging society

• eCONOMIC rECOVERY pACKAGE AND oLDER aDULT pOVERTY

• PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS -- HELPS IN UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OVER THE LIFECOURSE

• Understanding Medicare -- the short version

• Understanding Medicare -- the long version

    4110 General course information:

• Syllabus

• 4110 Bio-card

• Textbook Website

• Social Theories of Aging PPT

    4110 Help with your research Project:

• apa in-text citations

• apa list of references

• apa manuscript format

• Atkins Library Course Webpage

• tips for assessing web pages and web sites

• Electronic Resources for Gerontology through Atkins Library

• Electronic Gerontology Journals Through Atkins Library

• Journals on Aging

• national aging organization links

    4110 course topic links:

• Alzheimer's Disease (Chapter 7)

• Five factor theory of personality (Chapter 7)

• Intergenerational Solidarity (Chapter 8)

• Types of Elder Abuse (Chapter 8)

• Elder Justice Act Class Information (Chapter 8)

• National Center on Elder Abuse (Chapter 8)

• Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily living (adl) (Chapter 9)

• Lawton and Brody's Instrumental activities of daily living (iadl) (Chapter 9)

• Medicare.gov Nursing home comparison tool (Chapter 10)

• Family and Medical Leave Act (Chapter 10)

• Day of Conception in Russia

• Social Security Administration's website

• death with dignity national center

• Annual Report on Oregon's Death With Dignity Act

• American Stroke Association -- types of stroke

• american stroke association -- effects of stroke

    4110 Careers in Aging information

• AGHE's Careers in aging information -- a fantastic resource for those considering a career in aging

• Why study aging?

• how can you find more about the field of aging?

• recent career in aging related articles

• Exploring careers in Gerontology

PAST SEMESTER COURSES:

• Syllabus Spring 2006

• Group Presentation Evaluation Form

• CURRENT ANNOUNCEMENTS -- updated regularly

• LINK TO ARTICLE ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND SPOUSE ABUSE

• CHERLIN'S EXPLANATION IN FLOWCHART FORMAT

• Link to Median Family Income Data

• Public and Private Families Textbook web site

• Public and Private Families Reader web site

• Minority Representation in Newly Elected 109th Congress

• DEATH PENALTY FOR FEMALE OFFENDERS -- POSTED 11/16/04

• TREATY FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN -- POSTED 11/9/04

• REVISED COURSE OUTLINE 001 -- posted 11/28/04

• REVISED COURSE OUTLINE 002 -- posted 11/28/04

• Section 001 Syllabus -- Fall 2004

• Section 002 Syllabus -- Fall 2004

• "The Feminine Mystique" link

• Baby Blues Comic Strip -- excellent example of "doing gender."

• "Metrosexual" Article

• The Instability of Androgynous Names:  The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries in  The American Journal of  Sociology Volume 105 Number 5 (March 2000): 1249–87.  Available through Atkins on the Web.