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Overview:

• YOU are the subject of the final Field Experience assignment in this course! The goal of FE3 is for you to create your own plan for aging well. In this way, you will be actively using and applying what you have learned throughout the course to your own health and well-being.
• The second goal for FE3 is to develop insight and empathy for helping others in their journey to age well. One way to build the skill-set for helping and educating others is to first help and educate oneself. By doing first for ourselves what we may be asking others to do for their own benefit, we learn to "walk our talk" -- that is, we know from experience how to do, apply, create, discern, and use our learning for our own and others' benefit.
• Throughout this course, you may have picked up a theme - be prepared to age and know how to age well. Great, but what exactly does that mean? And furthermore, what exactly would a plan or preparation look like? What is are the differences between a "good" plan and a "doable plan" or a "realistic plan" and an "unrealistic plan"? Plans can be fashioned out of pretty words and phrases and look good on paper but be completely impractical when put into practice. One way to check yourself is to seek input from others. Sometimes, having someone else review your work help you to see areas you may have missed or areas in a plan that needs polish.
• In order to help ensure you are on the right and realistic path, you will be required to seek feedback from a person/people who have walked this path before you - your seniors/elders. By going to a primary source for information and feedback, you also will practice a skill for creating relevant health promotion material - checking back with the people you wish to serve. Then, as further backup, you will also be looking into scholarly research to show support for your ideas and plans.

Question 1: What kind of healthy Senior/Elder do you want to be?

Question 2: Who do you want to be and what do you want to be able to do?

Question 3: How are you going to grow into becoming this healthy Senior/Elder?

Question 4: What do you need in order to achieve these aspirations?

Question 5: How will you use your learning from this class and from other seniors/elders who have gone before you to become the healthy Senior/Elder you wish to be?