Assignment Paper-How to live to 100

How to live to 100

This week you learned from Dan Buettner’s TED Lecture: How to live to be 100+.

 

As you reflect on your readings and your own personal and professional experiences with others consider this week’s learning objectives and describe how the material from this week challenged you, corrected myths and/or concerned you. What are some of the new questions that are now arising for you? (Please note you may use “I” as this week’s post is meant to be reflective.)

 

Then search the literature to find evidence based practices and interventions that would help you to answer your questions and concerns as if you were going to create change that would increase or enhance the life span of Americans.

Your Tasks:

 

Please submit one original post (400-500 words) and respond to at least one peer post (75-150 words). Cite the text when appropriate for the discussion prompt above. Cite at least two relevant peer-reviewed journal articles to achieve maximum points for this assignment. (Articles may be cited in either your initial posting or your responses to peers.) Be sure that you have addressed all parts of the required response.

 

When you respond to peers, respond as if you were dialoguing with them, so be sure that your posts are related to their initial postings. Your posting needs to deepen the discussion by adding an additional perspective, sharing new information, or asking an additional question to get your colleague to think more critically about the issue – it should not be a new posting on your part that doesn’t connect to the initial posting or a mere “I agree with everything you’ve said” statement.

 

Prior to submitting your posts, check them for appropriate grammar, usage and spelling. In the field of social work it is important to be able to communicate effectively when writing as well as when speaking. Errors in these areas will result in a lower grade for your discussion posts.

 

Tip: Please remember to add a subject line to your post. Use descriptive subject lines for your posts; some find it easier to write the subject line after writing the post.