Assignment help

Join our 150К of happy users

Get original papers written according to your instructions and save time for what matters most.

Card image cap

Ageing through the Life-Course Assignment help

 

Module Scheme Semester One                                              2024-25
 
Module Name:Ageing through the Life-Course
Module Code:LC664Academic Year:2024-25
Tutor(s):Cohort September 2024 
Tutor’s Email: Mode:Face to face
  
Learning Outcomes: 

Onsuccessfulcompletionof themodulethestudentwillbeableto:

  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

 

Scheduled learning and teaching: 
 

Lectures (incl. virtual and face-to-face contact): 

Seminars (incl. virtual and face-to-face contact):

Guided Independent Study (GIS)

Total

15

 

 

30

 

 

105

150

Assessment Summary: 
Assessment Task Key DatesLearning Outcomes
CW1 Report:2500 words (detailed assignment brief to follow) 100% weighting 

Friday 10thJanuary 2025 

(Week 13) 2pm UK time

1,2,3,4

 

 

  
Week by Week Guide:Teaching Activity

1. Week beginning:

23/09/2024

(Timetabling Week 1)

Welcome and Introductions 

Exploring and deconstructing ‘age’ 

2. Week beginning:

30/09/2024

(Timetabling Week 2)

Age, the life-course and intersecting social divisions – social issues around ageing in the 21st Century

3. Week beginning:

07/10/2024

(Timetabling Week 3)

Well-being – what do we mean by well-being and ageing ‘well’? 

4: Week beginning:

14/10/2024

(Timetabling Week 4)

Children and wellbeing

5: Week beginning:

21/10/2024

(Timetabling Week 5)

Children and wellbeing

6.   Week beginning:

28/10/2024

(Timetabling Week 6)

Youth and young people

7. Week beginning:

04/11/2024

 

Youth and young people

8. Week beginning:

11/11/2024

(Timetabling Week 8)

Adulthood

9. Week beginning:

18/11/2024

(Timetabling Week 9)

Older people

10. Week beginning:

25/11/2024

(Timetabling Week 10)

Death and dying – a ‘good death’?

11. Week beginning:

02/12/2024

(Timetabling Week 11)

Globalisation and ageing – cross-cultural understandings of ageing well 

(Assignment guidance)

12. Week beginning:

09/12/2024

(Timetabling Week 12)

Theory in practice – case studies (Ageing and disability)

CHRISTMAS VACATION

Monday 16th December to Sunday 5th January 2025

13. Week beginning:

06/01/2025

(Timetabling Week 13)

 

Assessment Submission deadline Friday 10th January 2025 

 

14. Week beginning:

13/01/2025

(Timetabling Week 14)

Employability Session

15. Week beginning:

20/01/2025

(Timetabling Week 15)

Tutorials 

 

        

 

 

Core Text(s): 

Bradshaw, J. (2016), The Wellbeing of Children in the UK, Policy Press

Higgs, P. and Gilleard, C. (2015), Rethinking Old Age: Theorising the Fourth Age,Palgrave

Walker, A. (ed.) (2014), The New Science of Ageing, Bristol, Policy Press

 

Additional Reading: 

Barnes, M. Gahagan, B. & Ward, L. (2018) Re-imagining Old Age: Wellbeing, Care and Participation Delaware: Vernon Press

Bowling, A. (2005) Ageing Well: Quality of Life in Old Age Maidenhead: Open University Press

Katz, J., Peace, S. & Spurr, S. (Eds)(2012) Adult Lives: A Life Course Perspective Bristol: Policy Press

Phillipson, C. (2013) Ageing Cambridge; Polity Press 

Pickard, S. (2016) Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and Are Aged Through the Life Course London: Sage

 

Journal: 

Ageing and Society 

 

Websites

EU Active Ageing http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1062

 

Healthy Ageing across the Life Course http://www.halcyon.ac.uk/

 

UNICEF  http://www.unicef.org.uk/

 

 



 

Send Your assignment brief

Share your assignment brief and after Checking assignment requirement expert Will share the quote

Get Quote and pay

Once quote is sent, you can make Payment through secure option after which our team will start work

Get Assignment

Our team will Deliver the work you can share If any feedback