This course focuses on normal psychological development from maturity to old age. Topics to be examined include consideration of critical issues of research methods; problems of adjustment of the aged such as physical decline, retirement, aloneness, and disengagement; the needs and care of the aged; antecedents of successful aging; the psychology of dying and death; and theories of aging. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): PSY 121.
This course focuses on normal psychological development from maturity to old age. Topics to be examined include consideration of critical issues of research methods; problems of adjustment of the aged such as physical decline, retirement, aloneness, and disengagement; the needs and care of the aged; antecedents of successful aging; the psychology of dying and death; and theories of aging. Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hoursPrerequisite(s): PSY 121.
