During this last week of the quarter and our last meeting for the first half of the Life Course Scholars Program, some of my fellow classmates and I presented an article for the Current Events assignment. The article was “From City to Countryside, Study Suggests Wisdom Can Protect Against Loneliness” by the Good News Network, and it discussed a study on how a higher level of “wisdom,” which is measured in various means including empathy, can combat against loneliness, which is a significant issue due to the pandemic (Good News Network 2021). Some of the aspects of the study that I appreciate include how it addresses an issue that is not being focused on as heavily and how two separate populations from different locations and cultures, one in California and one in Italy, were sampled from. This is because it represents the idea that there is no uniform aging experience, with it varying greatly between individuals. One aspect that I feel can be improved is the explanation of how wisdom is measured, as while the article alludes to treatment involving compassion, how wisdom is defined or how it is measured is not mentioned. After the presentation, we worked on our Healthy Aging Project proposal, with our project involving the creation of a video consisting of various interviews of older people that center around a theme. Our proposal included a schedule for the next quarter for the interviews and video editing, and the main concern that we have is interviewing older people who are not comfortable with Zoom. We were also discussing the best way to direct the interview towards the theme, which we decided to have be about life stories, similar to our Oral History projects. Overall, I am glad that I am in this program, as alongside the small class size and community, I am not very experienced with interacting with older people. This class has helped me go out of my comfort zone and as a result, grow as a person.
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Martin NguyenMartin is a Biochemistry/Cell Biology major from Garden Grove, CA. A fun fact about Martin is that he played tennis in high school. Archives
April 2021
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