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Department of Gerontology
School of Allied Health Professions
Medical College of Virginia Campus
Virginia Commonwealth University
Course Syllabus Course number: GRTY 691:902
Opportunity Identification and an Aging Society
Spring Semester, 2007
Class will meet on Thursday’s from 4:00 to 6:40 p.m.
Course begins on Thursday, January 18, 2007 and will meet for 5 consecutive Thursday’s through February 22, 2007
Location: 301College Street – MCV campus Room # 120
Credit hours: 1
Instructor Ronald L. Moore Principal, Fidia Advisors, LLC www.FidiaAdvisors.com
Founder, FamilyCare America, Inc. and National Caregivers Library www.CaregiversLibrary.org
Office: 804-327-1112
901 Moorefield Park Drive Suite 100 Richmond, VA 23236
Americans with Disabilities Act Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 require Virginia Commonwealth University to provide academic adjustments or accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Students seeking academic adjustments or accommodations must self-identify with the Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities, Mr. Donald Roebuck ((804) 828-9782) on the MCV campus. After meeting with the Coordinator, students are encouraged to meet with their instructors to discuss their needs, and if applicable, any lab safety concerns related to their disabilities. Thank you.
Course Description
This course will provide a framework for identifying and analyzing problems and opportunities driven by an aging population. It will explore the impact of an aging population on individuals, families and a variety of organizations, professions, academic disciplines, and business and career opportunities.
Particular focal points will include family caregivers, the business case for employer support of working caregivers; the impact of an aging society on the demands for, and delivery of, healthcare; the use (and potential use) of technology to improve the lives of seniors and those who care for them; financial aspects of aging and caregiving including an overview of the macro-economic implications of an aging society and the market response of the financial services industry to large-scale demographic shifts; spirituality and, the impact on the traditional operation of ‘the church’.
Peripheral areas of discussion may include engineering, pharmacy, law, advertising and communications, design (such as furniture, architecture), real estate, construction and retail.
Learning Objectives
Students will gain a framework for identifying and evaluating problems and opportunities driven by an aging population and for examining them through multiple perspectives. Students will identify major trends / developments and examine how their convergence has/will create multiple large scale problems and opportunities. Students will envision products / services (whether new or improvements to existing ones) that could enable seniors and their family caregivers to live longer, more active, independent, financially secure, healthy lives and discuss strategies for developing collaborative efforts across disciplinary boundaries to create and launch them.
Students will appreciate the necessity of seeing problems and opportunities through multiple perspectives and become more aware of the necessity of “speaking the language” of multiple constituents and “framing their message to the audience” when trying to develop, promote or implement solutions to age-related problems.
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