| Teaching Staff
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| Language of Instruction |
Türkçe (Turkish) |
| Type Of Course |
Elective |
| Prerequisites |
There is no prerequisite for this course. |
| Recommended Optional Programme Component |
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| Course Objectives |
The aim of this course is to examine the physical, cognitive, social and emotional patterns of old age with a life-span development perspective. |
| Course Content |
The concepts and theories related to aging and period of older adulthood, biological aging, cognitive and socio-emotional changes that occur in older adulthood, changing roles and responsibilities of older adults during their lifetime, common disorders in old age, death and bereavement processes are introduced |
| Learning Outcomes (LO) |
The students who attended the course and successfully completed at the end of semester will be able to;
1-define the basic concepts and theories about aging and older adulthood
2-evaluate the research methods and ethical principles related to aging and older adulthood
3-summarize the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes seen in the old age
4-define the common disorders in old age
5-evaluate the current research findings on the old age period
6-define the death and bereavement processes |
| Mode of Delivery |
Face to face |
| Course Outline |
| Week |
Topics |
| 1. Week |
Introduction and Examination of Syllabus |
| 2. Week |
Introduction to Aging and Older Adulthood |
| 3. Week |
Theory and Method in Studying Aging and Older Adulthood |
| 4. Week |
Biological Aging and Health |
| 5. Week |
Attention and Memory |
| 6. Week |
Cognition and Problem Solving |
| 7. Week |
Intellectual Functioning |
| 8. Week |
MID-TERM |
| 9. Week |
Social Interaction and Social Ties |
| 10. Week |
Employment, Retirement, and Living Arrangements |
| 11. Week |
Personality |
| 12. Week |
Elder Abuse and Neglect |
| 13. Week |
Mental Health, Psychopathology and Therapies |
| 14. Week |
Coping with Death, Dying, Bereavement, and Aging in the Future |
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| Assessment |
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Percentage(%) |
| Mid-term (%) |
40 |
| Quizes (%) |
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| Homeworks/Term papers (%) |
10 |
| Practice (%) |
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| Labs (%) |
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| Projects/Field Work (%) |
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| Seminars/Workshops (%) |
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| Final (%) |
50 |
| Other (%) |
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| Total(%) |
100 |
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| Course Book (s) and/or References |
Textbook:
Erber, J. T. (2018). Yaşlanma ve ileri yetişkinlik (3. Baskı). (Z. Uçanok, Çev.) Ankara: Nobel Yayınevi. (Orijinal çalışma basım tarihi 2013).
Other Resources:
Kalınkara, V. (2011). Temel gerontoloji: Yaşlılık bilimi. Ankara: Nobel Yayınevi.
Onur, B. (2014). Gelişim psikolojisi, yetişkinlik, yaşlılık, ölüm. Ankara: İmge Kitabevi.
Özden, S. Y. (2018). Yaşlanmanın psikolojisi ve psikopatolojisi. Ankara: Nobel Yayınevi.
Tufan, İ. (2016). Antik Çağ’dan günümüze yaşlılık ve yaşlanma. Ankara: Nobel Yayınevi |
| Work Placement(s) |
There is no internship for this course. |
| The Relationship between Program Qualifications (PQ) and Course Learning Outcomes (LO) |
| PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 | PQ10 | PQ11 | PQ12 | PQ13 | LO1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | LO2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | LO3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | LO4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | LO5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | LO6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |