The wrap up

This semester I have learned that the elderly are as I have always thought are the corner stone of our culture. They are able to share their wealth of experience and it is our job to help them and assist them. I admire the people that are able to work with them, in the past I have never understood the elderly and their often stubbornness. Now I see that we as a culture need to support them and care for them. Two days ago a fellow counselor said to me no way in hell could he work with the elderly that he admire that I was able to work with the elderly that were schizophrenic. While yes I admit in the past I avoided them like they had the plague. I have come to a new understanding and see that you often have to repeat, repeat, listen and repeat.

1970's and the elderly

The elderly in the 1970's were still in a way in shock from the murder of President John F. Kennedy. President Johnson sent many grandchild of theirs, the elderly, off to war in a foreign country, Vietnam this ended up being a war that would never end. The elderly were in a good way according to those that I interviewed the economy was good because we were in a war and with social security they were able to live in a better way. This population has been hard to work with they are very private and there is not a lot of information for them.