My Late Life Aging
1. The problematic aging situation I want to focus on from question 3 in the last assignment is having a heart attack. This problematic aging situation could affect me physically by causing me to be more physically weak and include other symptoms such as shortness of breath. This could affect me emotionally by causing severe depression and fear of another heart attack or worse. It could affect me socially by causing me to withdraw from others out of depression, or just no longer having the physical capabilities I once had to be as social as I was before. Lastly, this might affect me financially due to the medical costs it would take to deal with the situation, and depending on the limitations this problem might bring after I may no longer be able to work if I was still doing so. My initial feelings toward this problematic aging situation are honest fear. After losing a mother so early and randomly from having a heart attack, it’s something that has made a foundational impact on my life. I had never really considered it before until it hit so close to home.
2. Considering the problematic situation I chose, I believe this would completely change the older adult life I imagined. I had imagined a completely social and active life for my older adulthood. If I were to suffer from a heart attack and survive, I know this would slow a lot of what I had planned down, if not put it to a complete stop. For example, I planned on volunteering for a lot of different groups, and I don’t think I would be able to do this anymore. I think things would have to move at a slower pace. I think my overall satisfaction would life would be severely lowered. It would definitely take some resilience to get my life back to where it was before the heart attack.
3. The GRRs that would help me to manage this problematic situation would be financial resources and social support. Some examples of financial support would include insurance and retirement funds. Some examples of social support would be encouragement from friends, family, and my medical team. In this situation, I believe resilience would look like not letting the fear of having a heart attack completely put me in a place of fear and despair where I wouldn’t want to do anything. It would look like me accepting the situation for what it is, focusing on my health, and still trying to live my normal life to the best of my capabilities.
4. For my article, I used Google Scholar to find a peer-reviewed article on heart attacks and their effects. To summarize, this article talks about how heart attacks affect people differently based on their age group. It discusses the age-related differences when suffering from a heart attack and what each age group should do to limit the risk factors of having a heart attack. This article added to my knowledge about heart attacks, mostly by teaching me ways to prevent a heart attack and the importance of prevention techniques for all age groups.
Goldberg, R. J., Gore, J. M., Gurwitz, J. H., Alpert, J. S., Brady, P., Strohsnitter, W., Chen, Z., & Dalen, J. E. (1989). The impact of age on the incidence and prognosis of initial acute myocardial infarction: The Worcester Heart Attack Study. American Heart Journal, 117(3), 543–549. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-8703(89)90727-8
Blog Post 2- Corissa R.
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Corissa,
I wondered why a heart attack was your primary concern for yoru own aging. It is true that heart attacks are more prevelant as we age, but there are lots of folks in their 50s that experience heart problems. And lots of people experience heart attacks or heart problems and recover quite nicely. I’m not sure it would necessarioy “completely change the older adults life” you imagined. It might temporarily, but not necessarily permanently. Particularly if you took precautions in your younger years and followed up with regular checkups, etc.
If you were to build the GRRs you mentioned, this could be even a less scary proposition, right? It has been interesting for me to read all of your posts about having to go slower and not be able to do all the things you can do now. I hate to tell all of you, but that is just a regular part of aging, I’m afraid. Actually, it’s not a bad part of aging at all, really.
Google Scholar is clearly not the best option to find peer-reviewed articles. This article was written in 1989. I suspect there have been signficnat advancements in medical research regarding heart attacks since then, don’t you think? I simple library search would have yeilded better results. Plus, literature searches are an acceptable use of AI according to the school. Here is a quote from the policy in the syllabus. Even the free version of ChaptGPT or Perplexity would have been a better choice.
• Commonly acceptable uses of AI: in-class activities that use and critique AI tools; brainstorming ideas; generating sample outlines or templates for an assignment; personal tutor; critiquing/comparing AI output from different tools; identifying literature sources on a topic area that you would then retrieve directly for further reading/review; time management; providing study reminders; refining a draft that you’ve already written for grammar/punctuation/spelling.
THen, is you are using an article, you need to talk about it more than the simply summary in the abstract. You actually need to do the second part of that policy – “retrive directly for further reading/review.”
Dr P