Interviewing an Older Adult: A Living History Experience
This is a project in which the student will play the role of historian. The student’s
task is to interview a family member that is 65 years or older and to record the facts
you learn. To be a good interviewer the student must listen carefully while they
record the responses. The student must make their notes as complete as possible.
With the interviewee’s permission, the student may choose to record the interview
and transcribe their notes at a later date. The goal of this project is to gather
information about the student’s family member that will enrich the student’s
knowledge about them. For those students who do not have a family member 65
years or older, they can interview a friend, neighbor or interview an older adult from
a local nursing home.
The student is required to ask all the questions below. If the interviewee chooses
not to answer a question, go on to the next question and note that in the paper. The
student will turn in the responses of the interview in a typed paper following APA7th edition
Guidelines. Also, in the paper the student will answer the questions in Section Seven
comparing their responses with the interviewee’s responses