Woo! It’s week 7. Today we worked on many things for class and our class healthy aging project coming up this Saturday. We began with a debrief of all our off campus visits from the past 3 weeks, did our Current Event presentations, Oral History presentations, This Chair Rocks book discussion, and made final decisions on our Senior Prom project. In our debrief from all our site visits we discussed how we felt and how our perspectives have changed. Some things I brought up was how I knew the demographic I wanted to work with and specifically how but didn’t know how to get there and through all these visits my eyes really opened to the many possibilities. We also shared memories with specific members we had met and I was happy to hear that we all had funny and cute memories with some people (:
Then we did current event projects where I presented with Leeda Sea about dementia cafes in Japan and how the U.S. should be following them. Some follow up questions we got were about the finances behind it and how dementia cafes could prosper in America because we live in such a capitalist society. Then we listened to a few but cute, creative, and heartfelt oral history presentations. They were so beautiful and thought out and I very much appreciate them.
We then moved onto the book discussion of This Chair Rocks, which I was very proud of because I felt as though the presentation was well-put together and that the ideas were concise and thoughtful. We then finished off with final conversation of individual healthy aging projects we’re considering, as well as our prom this weekend, in which we decided who would be able to gather together for Friday at 4pm to assemble goodie bags.
Then we did current event projects where I presented with Leeda Sea about dementia cafes in Japan and how the U.S. should be following them. Some follow up questions we got were about the finances behind it and how dementia cafes could prosper in America because we live in such a capitalist society. Then we listened to a few but cute, creative, and heartfelt oral history presentations. They were so beautiful and thought out and I very much appreciate them.
We then moved onto the book discussion of This Chair Rocks, which I was very proud of because I felt as though the presentation was well-put together and that the ideas were concise and thoughtful. We then finished off with final conversation of individual healthy aging projects we’re considering, as well as our prom this weekend, in which we decided who would be able to gather together for Friday at 4pm to assemble goodie bags.