ACTIVITY 3

CRITICALTHINKING
YOURVIEWSANDATTITUDESABOUTAGING
1. How many older adults do you know personally?
- I personally know 4 older adults, my grandmother, her 2 sisters, and the
husband of her younger sister.
2. Do you think they are “old?” Do they consider themselves “old?”
- Yes, as far as I know they consider themselves as old. They always say to
their children and grandchildren that the reason that they can’t hear or see
thing and do a certain tasks faster is because of their old age.
3. How do you personally define “old?”
- I define an old person as someone who has lived well and someone who has
many good and bad experiences and these experiences made them tougher and
stronger through time.
4. Why is aging an issue today?
- When people think of the word aging, they associate it with shifting disease
burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term care, labor-force
shortages, dissaving, and potential problems with old-age income security.
Longer life spans, particularly longer healthy life spans, are viewed as a huge
benefit to human welfare.
5. Should Social Security laws be changed to reflect today’s longer life expectancy?
- Due to the fact that today’s life expectancy is longer, I think that there should
be a reform on Social Security Laws. Since more period of assistance tends
to mean fewer payments to recipients and this cause to lower installation
earnings in early retirement and lessens taxes lifetime income. Furthermore,
as people live longer lives, the available trade-offs inevitably change, and
policymakers require criteria to determine how many years of support should
be provided.

Please complete the following statements. Write as many applicable comments as you
can.
1. A person can be considered “old” when
- He/ she reaches the age of 60
- He/ she likes to stay home and spends time with his family
- Likes to spend leisure time for themselves
- Participates in engaging activities

2. When I think about getting older, I

- I think of being wiser
- I think about getting tougher and stronger
3. Growing older means
- Enjoying life to the fullest
- Spending more time with your family
- Less stress

4. When I get older, I will lose my

- I will lose some of my friends
- I will lose some opportunities
- I will lose some of my habits

5. Seeing an older person makes me feel

- It makes me feel amazed
- It makes me feel happy
- It makes me feel hopeful

6. Older people always

- Older people always like to talk about their past experiences
- Older peoples always like to spend time with themselves
- Older people like to bond with their family
- Older people are very generous
- Older people are very mindful about their health