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Our Future Older Selves: Questions for Reflection Discussion, and Writing

Purpose

No matter where each of us happens to be in terms of our chronological age or life course stage, we might find it beneficial to reflect upon (and befriend!) our future older self, no matter how far away in the future that older self seems to dwell, no matter even if we are already considered to be an "older person."



Framing Questions

Who is your hoped for future self?
Who is the older person you most want to become?
In what ways is your future older self related to who you are right now and who you’ve been at earlier phases of your life?
When you imagine your future older self, who do you see? What are you doing? Where are you? How do you feel and move? Who or what is around you?


Detail Questions

What will be your central sources of meaning? How do you want to feel?
What will you consider to be the qualities of a good day?
What will your living environment be like? How will it look and feel? With whom will you share your living environment?
What kinds of relationships will you nurture and value? What role will you play in others’ lives? With whom will you interact on a regular basis?
What will be your sources of pleasure and activity? How will you care for your older bodily self? How will you live in your older body?
What new things do you hope to be learning about? How will you spend your time? What kinds of daily activities and experiences will you most
value?
What will you want society to expect from you? What will you expect from
society?


Enactment Questions

Are there features of your life that you consider to be negotiable, nonnegotiable, or undecided? How might this influence how you imagine
and become your future older self?
What kinds of lifestyle changes do you need to make? What kinds of personal work do you need to do?
What kinds of planning do you need to do on behalf of your future self?
What forms of economic security and social support do you need to create on behalf of your future self? What does your “personal safety net”
look like?
What sources of meaning do you need to recapture or create in your present life?
What does your life need to look like now so that you may become your hoped for future self?



Guidelines

When preparing your essays, please use a 12-point standard font, 1-inch margins, double-spacing, and page numbering. In addition, please attach a cover page as you would for any academic paper that includes your name, the title of your paper, the date, and the name of the course. Properly cite and document your sources, even if they are the texts assigned for this course. Please use APA style, and check for spelling errors. Make sure that you use the three categories above as subheadings. This paper will not require an abstract.



Rubric

Each of the three types of questions will be worth 30%. For example, if under the subheading “Enactment questions” you address all six questions completely and thoroughly, you will receive 30 points.

Following the guidelines and using APA style will constitute the remaining 10%. Please note that for every 3 spelling errors a point will be deducted from your final grade.

Me to my writer of essay  ?????
- Also this paper is not about length but content I need a strong introduction and all questions answered I put pictures of the instructions and put in this section so you could see how it is going be written please use the three sub headings - framing questions , detail questions and enactment questions  also anything that needs be cited please cite . My major is social work and I am taking aging and development right now this is an important essay worth 100 points please do not let me down  also I need a good strong introduction