Assignment 2: The “Golden Years”
Jose Ybarra Jr. is a retired veteran from the United States Army who is currently sixty-eight years old. Mr. Ybarra was born on January 02, 1948 from a Spaniard lineage. He is not only my father, but a father to my sister Lina Ybarra Valero and brother Leon Ybarra as well. He currently resides in Harlingen, Texas and is divorced from my mother Susana Munoz. On November 19, 2016 I sat him down to conduct an interview and asked him the following questions and received the following responses:
1. What type of physical activities do you like to do? Do you do these activities every day? Did you do these physical activities when you were younger?
Mr. Ybarra: I like to go walk, to go walk in the park in the evening.
Me: Dad, the park is about five minutes away and you don’t drive. So, how do you get to the park?
Mr. Ybarra: I walk to the park and walk around the park Yvonne. Then I walk back (home).
2. Do you happen to know your current eyesight? If not, do you see images blurry up close or afar? Do you wear contacts or glasses?
Mr. Ybarra: No I don’t know
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Life expectancy has increased. With that, individuals’ in late adulthood develop physical changes. Individuals’ in their late adulthood acquire changes in their senses. With vision these individuals’ “lose elasticity in the lens of the eye which causes the individual to adapt to light differently and harder to focus on near objects” (Cacchione) as reading the fine print on a newspaper. They also may develop diseases of the eye such as: Cataracts, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy, and even acquire a detached retina. My father has Presbyopia which is also a disease that other individuals in late adulthood can receive. My father stated that he couldn’t see the word RED when it was only three feet in front of him, he saw it as a blurred image as for when it was ten feet away from him, he saw it
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