Communication and Aging

Catalog description

This course will examine existing and emerging research within communication and aging studies and emphasize an interpersonal life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs in later life. Issues that affect older people such as work, leisure, retirement, media use, health, death and dying and family and personal relationships will be explored. Barriers such as sight, hearing, cognitive impairments, memory, language and touch will be examined as they affect older adults when communicating with others. This course will offer both a theoretical and applied perspective to aging and communication. Students also will learn how to be an advocate for older adults who are unable to care for themselves. Prerequisite: CST 110 . Offered Alternate Years.