|Adapted from ServiceLearningWebs2.pdf downloaded from Maryland Service-Learning|
P = Preparation
IA = Indirect Action
DA = Direct Action
AA = Advocacy Action
R = Reflection
Hold a senior prom.
Invite media and community leaders.
P - Read short stories about seniors. Discuss how seniors are depicted and why.
IA - Be penpals to seniors throughout the year.
DA - Interview seniors and write a biography of their childhood / younger years.
AA - Write advocacy letters to legislators for better housing/ conditions for seniors.
R - Predict own life at 80. Write a story or poem.
P- Compute amount needed to retire at low, middle, high income levels.
IA - Set up seminar for seniors. Answer questions about investments/ financISl planning.
DA - Help seniors do taxes/balance cheque book.
AA - Lobby legislators on policies concerning SocISl Security/Medicare.
R - Project costs for when students are 80, retirement $ needs.
P - Discuss how physical strength/ agility changes with age.
IA - Create fitness exercise video and give to senior citizens.
DA - Do physical fitness sessions with nursing home residents.
AA - Create posters on importance of staying physically fit throughout life.
R - Critique action project and make recommendation as to how to improve.
P - Hold seniors sensitivity session. Discuss feelings about aging.
IA - Put together craft kit projects for local nursing home. Deliver.
DA - Draw portraits of residents of nursing home and discuss their childhoods.
AA - Do PR posters for senior prom.
R - Write journal entry to place under portraits: What I learned about this person.
P - Graph changes in sensory perception over life span and discuss impact on health/quality of life.
IA - Publish health records brochure and distribute to senior centres.
DA - Work with Meals on Wheels.
AA - Research diseases of seniors. Write advocacy letters on policy/legislation.
R - Discuss how to reduce impact of aging.
P - Research popular music of the 20's 30's and 40's.
IA - Make recordings of music from preparation activity and deliver to nursing homes.
DA - Provide music for senior prom.
AA - Create showcase about senior musicISns' contributions to society.
R - Take photos at senior prom and put with music into PowerPoint presentation.
P - Survey and discuss technology aids for seniors.
IA - Make adaptable equipment. Deliver to senior centres and nursing homes.
DA - Hold computer sessions with seniors.
AA - Design residence for seniors. Present to legislators along with recommendations and reasoning.
R - Project into future. 'What will aids to seniors be like in 50 years?'
P - Research impact of Grey Power and Senior Nomads on policy and attitudes towards seniors.
IA - Develop program for the evening of the senior prom.
DA - Escort seniors to polls. Help with voter registration.
AA - Lobby to prevent cuts in seniors' programs.
R - Discuss future of pension schemes and need for financISl planning.
P - Research/discuss treatment of seniors in culture of study.
IA - Translate for seniors who speak/read limited English.
DA - Identify nursing home residents who speak little English. Visit and converse in language of resident.
AA - Advocate for more respectful treatment/ policies for seniors.
R - Discuss: If we could how should we treat our senior citizens?
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