Ageing Well: Critical Analysis of an Aspect of Ageing Through the Life Course

Your task is to research for and write a report on an aspect of ageing well through the life course in contemporary societies. You will need to choose a particular issue and a particular age-group and write a report in which you critically discuss the issues around ageing well for that group.

You must agree the topic for your report with your module leader by (date to be announced).

You will need to include relevant theory, research and social policy in your critical discussion of the issue/group you have identified.  

You also need to identify and evaluate relevant evidence-based solutions (e.g. policies; initiatives etc.) which might improve ageing well for your group or in response to the issue you have identified.

Your report must be 3000 words in length.  

This assignment has been designed to provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate your achievement of the following module learning outcomes:

1.Critically analyse the importance of the different stages of the life course to the concept of ageing well.

2.Critically analyse issues which impact on ageing well, including inequality, culture and lifestyle choice.

3.Critically analyse the politicisation of ageing through the life course and the role of global, national and local policy in providing the context to ageing and ageing well.

4.Critically examine the significance of the social construction of community and social capital to experiences of ageing and ageing well through the life course.

This information is also available in book form: Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2016) Cite them right: the essential reference guide. 10th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Copies are available via the university library.

How your work will be assessed

Your work will be assessed on the extent to which it demonstrates your achievement of the stated learning outcomes for this assignment (see above), and will also be assessed against the following criteria:

·Fulfilment of all aspects of the assessment task

·Understanding

·Critical analysis

·Use and application of theory

·Report coherence, structure & presentation

·Breadth and quality of research

This assignment should be submitted electronically. Please use the relevant Turnitin submission point in the Submit your work area on LSST Connect.

 · Please ensure that your work has been saved in an appropriate file format. Turnitin will only accept the following file types: Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, or plain text. Your file must also contain at least 20 words of text, consist of fewer than 400 pages and be less than 40MB in size.

· You can submit your work as many times as you like before the submission date. If you do submit your work more than once, your earlier submission will be replaced by the most recent version.

 · Once you have submitted your work, you will receive a digital receipt as proof of submission, which will be sent to your forwarded e-mail address (provided you have set this up). Please keep this receipt for future reference, along with the original electronic copy of your assignment.