Final Paper

Abdullah Al Bahrani

California State University-Long Beach

1/3/2020

Biology of Aging Theory

Abstract

Zahra Al Bahrani is an old woman who is suffering from back pains. Me and my siblings were living with her in the same house and that where I got the opportunity to interview her. The interview will be about her life disability and how she is straggling with it. What was the cause, challenges experienced and how it is being maintained?

Proposal

Mrs. Al Bahrani is seventy-five years old. She is my grandmother and we are staying in the same house with her while looking at her. She is short, of the medium body but moves around using a wheelchair. This is because she has a problem with her backbone and it no longer supports her body well.

First, Mrs. Al Bahrani will be prepared for the interview that will take place in her house. After the preparation, the interview will take place in two days. The first day of the week and in the middle of the week. It will take place from the house in the living room where she always stays during the day and meets other visitors. The specific time of the interview will be mid-morning before she gets tired.

I chose my grandmother because of the life stories that she used to tell us and because she took care of me when I was a kid. Due to that both of my parents were in full-time job, she was the one that took care of me and my other siblings. She used to be strong and ever working but all over sudden at the age of forty-five she fell it and she could not regain her full strength. As a result of this, I wanted to know the cause of her sickness, the medication and how her life changed after in a sudden manner. Whenever I look at her, I always wondered how she could be in normal life without the sickness striking her.

From this, the assignment level is very comfortable. I have always been curious to know what happen to my grandmother. Despite this, she is loving and accepted herself which also made me comfortable to choose her for the assignment. Besides, being used to her and I like talking with her about life situations.

To the completion of the assignment, I am looking forward to knowing the cause of her disability, treatment, and the preventable measures to the other generations. From this, the interview theory that I can see from her is the biology of the aging theory. This is because it deals with the human body together with the damages and how it is programmed.

Script

Interview Questions

1. How was your life before the illness?

2. What were the activities that you liked doing regularly?

3. What happened before you feel sick?

4. How did the sickness start?

5. Are you being bullied or bothered?

6. How do you explain the illness and all you are suffering from your friends and relatives?

7. Do you feel intimidated or undermined whenever you are asked or questioned about the disease?

8. Do you feel different from others?

9. What is the hardest part of having a disability and staying with the illness?

10. How do you view yourself?

11. How differently are different people treating you in different situations whenever their help is needed or when they pay a visit?

12. Did you enjoy your healthy life or you wish you were like normal people?

13. How are the medication expenses, do you feel burned?

14. How is the experience of taking the medication every day?

15. How did you cope to stay with the illness for this long without showing the signs of giving up in life?

16. Was the sickness preventable or it just comes without any preventable measures? If it was preventable, what did you do to prevent it, and what happened so that it stroke you down?