Students engage in volunteer activities, or advocacy work in community agencies for persons over 55, or in research in memory, quality of life issues, physical health, exercise, etc. Implications for functional, environmental and leadership dimensions of leisure and recreation experiences in the later years. Problems in planning, financing, delivering, and evaluating health services for the elderly and the mentally ill. Administrative structures and public and private delivery systems are compared and critiqued. Concentrates upon allocation of resources during the late phases of the family life cycle.
Attention is given to retirement planning, alternative life styles for the aging and elderly.
Government, community and private resources are analyzed relative to benefits useful to this age group. The family as a social institution on the basis of the data of ethnology, history, and contemporary studies. Special attention to contemporary culture patterns. A description and analysis of contemporary, changing ethnic cultures and lifestyles in American society. A comprehensive study of the later years of life including physical changes, social adaptations, psychological aspects and the interactions among these areas.