Personal Life Senior

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The theme that I have chosen for this reflection paper is The Personal Life Course of a senior. Since I only really know the general parts off the life course, I wanted to gain a little bit of insight into what goes on in someone’s life during the life course; ie: being born, the important and unimportant life events and passing away. Also, I wanted to learn more about what life was like back then as opposed to now with all this new and growing technology; in other words how different their generation had been compared to ours in its current state. The senior that I have decided to interview for this assignment is Nora Carter, she is 84 years young (meaning she is in the oldest old category), she is also a Baby Boomer and my grandmother. The

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