Topic-Economic Well-Being: Retirement, Employment, and Poverty
1. Watch the documentary Economics of Aging. What is your initial gut reaction to this documentary? Surprised? Empathic? Angry? Why?? What thoughts do you have about your own aging after watching this documentary? Your response should be between 250 words
2. Imagine that your annual income is the median income for a single older adult-around $20.000. Consider what you now pay for rent, food, utilities, health care, gas, insurance, and leisure activities. Total the amount that you spend each year on your basic living expenses. Are you able to live on that amount? If not, what would you have to give up to do so?
3. Please find on YouTube a short inspirational story about elder/centenarians through the news or others (for example, a quick video, click here, Ernestine Shepherd). (Links to an external site.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBo2dl3PBc Please discuss in brief what is inspirational and unique about this case. Did it help you view older adulthood as a good time in a persons life or not? Why or why not?
YouTube Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpBo2dl3PBc
