Learning Team Assignment:

 PowerPoint Presentation on “Slowing the Biological Clock”:

Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation on the concept of stopping a biologically driven aging process.As a team you are to review current research on medical, scientific, holistic, and psychosocial ways, including diet, exercise, surgery, and so on, to slow the aging process. With your team, synthesize the findings that will focus on the concept of stopping a biologically driven process. Address the following questions in your presentation:

a.    What are the risks and benefits?

b.   What are the motivations of those “selling” this idea?

c.    What are the consequences to society and to individuals?

d. What are the implications to the provision of human services to the elderly?

Discussion Questions

Discussion questions will be posted in the main forum.  Discussion question responses will count towards the class participation requirement. Only posts in the Main classroom forum will count towards your class participation score.

• Discuss two theories of biological aging. Which theory makes the most sense to you?
• What are three psychosocial changes taking place in middle adulthood between men and women?