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Choose an advocacy organization in your community that focuses on issues for aging adults. Explore the organization’s website and publications.

Choose an advocacy organization in your community that focuses on issues for aging adults. Explore the organization’s website and publications.

To Prepare:

Choose an advocacy organization in your community that focuses on issues for aging adults. Explore the organization’s website and publications.

BY DAY 3

Post by Day 3 the name of the organization and an explanation of three key issues on which the organization focuses in its mission. Finally, explain how the organization proposes societally reforming each issue.

RESOURCES

Required Readings

· Kunkel, S. R., & Settersten, Jr., R. A. (2022).  Aging, society, and the life course (6th ed.). Springer.

· Chapter 9, “Politics, Civic Engagement and Aging in America” (pp. 252–278)

· Carreon, D., & Noymer, A. (2011).  Health-related quality of life in older adults: Testing the double jeopardy hypothesis.Links to an external site.   Journal of Aging Studies, 25(4), 371–379.