Interview: My Gerontology Interview

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“Have patients and resistance, mija” my 90 year old great grandmother Elizabeth said. She has been one of my motivational supporters pushing me towards my goals, continuation of my education, and living life. Just one phone call, can’t explain how much I dearly miss her. As part of my gerontology interview assignment I had to ask her a couple of questions. One question was: “what is the most significant world event you have experienced and why?”, but my great-grandmother didn’t mention a world event but her own. She explained that she doesn’t know how to read, nor write. She self-taught herself to write her own name and to this day she still does. In the small town in Mexico in which she resides in long ago, lacked education badly. There were no instructors whom taught in schools in town or her surroundings. Few schools were hours away, but with the lack of sufficient resources such as transportation and in town schools those opportunities were never granted to …show more content…

I explained what gerontology is- the study of aging. I asked her about the most/least she liked about the aging process. She repeated several times that she felt like she had minimal memory and things have become more difficult to understand. She more so explained what she can’t do anymore. She completely doesn’t like the increase of age. She believes time flies quickly and she dislikes the fact of feeling really, really old. She wishes she could rejuvenate and become more active and young as she was at one point. She dislikes not being able to walk and obtain strength to do certain activities. What she does feel is sadness, because she feels like she can’t do anything. She can barely walk, tells herself that she is very old and finished up repeatedly, and has very little memory. The only good thing she still has is a big appetite, she said as she

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