Demographic Information
What is your current age?
– 83 years old
What is your gender?
– Male
What is your race/ethnicity?
– “American Race”
What was the last grade you completed in school?
– 3 years of college completed in Germany
What is your occupation? Or, what do you do (or did you do) for a living?
– Retired from accounting in 1974 and bought a business after
– Has owned various business’s
Family History
Will you please share with us when and where you were born?
– Born in Germany in 1930
What did your parents do for a living?
– Father died in Russian Concentration camp during World War and Mother was a house wife
How many brothers and sisters in your family?
– Has one sister who now lives in Canada who is nine years older than him
Did you marry and have children? How many children? Do you have grandchildren? How many grandchildren? How often do you see your children and grandchildren?
– Married three times
– Has two kids: son lives in California and daughter loves in Florida
– -visits his current wife’s son once or twice a week
– His wife’s son has two kids as well who he considers family
– Tries to stay in touch as much as possible
If you were married, what types of jobs did your spouse have over his life? What types of jobs have you had over your life?
Topic 2: Daily Activities, Social Support and Health
Daily Activities
Will you please describe what a typical day and week is like for you? How often do you visit with friends or family?
– Wakes up at any given hour that he wants to
– Proceeds to go to the funplex to workout
– Cooks dinner for his wife at roughly around lunch time and occasionally eats out at the senior center once or twice a week
– When he does eat with his wife they watch jeopardy and wheel of fortune
– Meets up with friends on Saturday mornings for coffee
– Only snacks for dinner
Health
How would you describe your health? What do you do to stay active?
– Claims to be “ an old man in good shape”
– Works out every day at the funplex
Do you believe that you have what is necessary for a healthy, happy life?
– Yes absolutely. He is very content with life and what he has accomplished health wise.
Over all, how satisfied are you with your life?
– Very satisfied with life
Topic 3: Programs and Services that help Older Adults
Programs and services that help older adults
In the United States, many older adults receive a pension from their employer and/or from the government depending on how long they worked. Do you receive a pension, too? How did you become eligible to receive that pension? Do you think your pension is adequate for your needs? Any other sources of income?
– He gets social Security
– Has worked since 1963
– Pension is not adequate
– Has some savings
When you need health care from a doctor or hospital, how is that paid for? How much do you have to pay? Are there health care services that your medical coverage does not pay for (such as dental care, eye glasses or hearing aids)? Has your health care coverage changed? What percentage of your overallfinances go to health care?
– Medicare pays for 80% of the expenses
– No Medicare pays for everything
– No healthcare is still the same
– Between 5-10% of overall finances go to healthcare
– Does not need any sort of assistance
Topic 4: Experience Aging
Experiencing aging
How do you feel about growing older?
– Does not enjoy the physical limitations but does not mind it
– Brain Is still young but body isn’t
What do you like about being your age?
– That he doesn’t have to work anymore
What do you dislike about being your age?
– Physical limitations
– Can’t do everything his brain thinks he can
What do you look forward to?
– Forward to being happy and healthy
– Happy to be alive
Name and describe one life event that changed your life. Did this event make you stronger or have a negative impact?
– Father being captured and arrested by Russian police and ended up dying in concentration camp.
– Did not have either of a negative or positive impact on his life
– It was simply life changing
What advice would you give younger people about growing older?
– “After school you spend most of your life at work, so pick something you love and run with it”
Topic 5: A Final Topic Chosen by The Group
Each group creates these questions based on the interests of the interviewee and can include someinterests of the group.
Do you believe in Aliens?
– Does not know what to believe
What is the greatest human advancement that he considers to have seen in all the years he has lived?
– Medical technology
– Without medical technology he would not have been able to remove the skin cancer from his nose
– Without medical technology he would have never been able to have a hip replacement thus making him more physically impaired which would result in not as much of a happy life
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social exchange
Ethnomethodology
political economy ) and i will upload the conversation that we had with the interviewee to help you write the paper and some book pages you can use and also you can use some extra information that Related to the subject.
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