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Understanding Old Age
This Nuffield Working with Science unit was designed to enable students to trace the way in which the age structure of the population has changed, to gain experience in interpreting and presenting data, to identify and discuss some of the problems of the elderly, and to study how far the welfare services meet their needs.
In addition students were given opportunities to test, by experiment, the effects of ageing on the nervous system, to consider the design features of some aids for old people and finally to design and produce an elderly person's aid themselves.
Guidance for teachers and technicians appears in Teachers’ Notes E.
The unit was revised and republished for the CPVE edition of the project in the 1980s. Guidance for this version appears in the Tutors’ Handbook.
Contents
Introduction
Section 1: What is the problem?
Section 2: What's it like to be old?
Section 3: 'They use such small print nowadays'
Section 4: Can an old dog learn new tricks?
Section 5: Science lends a hand
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