Week 9- Critical Reflection Journal

Consider the area of practice you are most interested in how might the Liberation Health model be integrated into this area of work? What do you imagine may facilitate this integration? What barriers might exist?

Guidelines (10 points)

• You may complete your reflection through a discussion (500 word minimum, voicethread, or video response (5-7 minutes), whichever you prefer

  • If you choose to complete with a VoiceThread, make sure to upload the VoiceThread link with or as your completed assignment

• 500-750 word written range; 5-7 minute video/audio range

• Cite or refer to a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed sources

• resources

Take note of these central ideas:
1. Unlike in earlier historical eras, many people in the United States and other industrialized countries today reach the life phase of late adulthood, and the older population is a very heterogeneous group.

2. The cumulative effect of health disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status impacts the quality of aging for significant subpopulations of older
people in the United States and around the world.

Development in Older Adulthood and Liberation Health Integration

3. The most commonly discussed psychosocial theories of social gerontology are disengagement, activity, continuity, social construction, feminist, social exchange, life
course, age stratification, and productive aging theories; the most common theories of biological aging are the programmed aging theories and damaged or error theories.

4. All systems of the body appear to be affected during the aging process.

5. It has been difficult to understand psychological changes in late adulthood without long- term longitudinal research, but recent longitudinal research suggests that with age and experience, individuals tend to use more adaptive coping mechanisms.

6. Families play an important role in late adulthood, and as a result of increased longevity, multigenerational families are more common than eve APA