Instructions for Interview of Older Adult Using the questions below, conduct an interview with a person at least 65 years of age. Feel free to add questions of your own whenever one occurs to you.The report of your interview should meet the following criteria:1. Typed and double-spaced if possible; if not possible, please write neatly in pen.2. Include the questions in your report in a format that enables the reader to know what theperson you are interviewing is referring to.3. Discuss your personal reaction to the interview in three paragraphs at the end of your report.******************************************************************************Questions for Interview of an Older Adult1. Please tell me about your childhood, family and school life.2. Do you consider yourself old? At what ages (or stages) did you notice that you were getting older?3. What is the most important historical event or period of time that you have lived through? How did it influence you personally?4. What is the biggest change you have seen in how people conduct their everyday lives?5. What have been the best years of your life so far? What are your plans for the future?6. How are young people today different from when you were their age?7. What advice would you give young people to help them prepare for their old age?8. Have you ever experienced any negative attitudes or discrimination because of your age?Please explain.9. Student question. Based on what you've learned, ask at least one more question; what else would you like to know about this person's life?******************************************************************************After you describe the interview, discuss your reaction (three paragraphs).1. What did you learn? Did anything surprise you?2. How did you feel during the interview?3. What changes (if any) have occurred in your perception of older adults? (What did you think before? What do you think now?Historical ContextBefore beginning the interview of their older friend, students need to familiarizethemselves with national events, trends, and presidents of the 1900s.Important Events:! 1900-1920 Development of big businessDevelopment of transportationPanama CanalAirplane inventedOne room schoolsFirst automobilesWorld War I in EuropeU.S. entry into World War IFlu epidemicArmistice Day! 1920-1930 Women voteProhibitionFlappersProgressive EraStock Market Crash! 1930-1940 Great DepressionNew DealRadio popular! 1940-1950 Pearl HarborDraft and World War IIAtomic bombV-E Day and V-J DayCold war and anti-communism! 1950-1960 SputnikFear of nuclear warTV becomes common applianceElvis Presley popular! 1960-1970 VietnamCivil rightsGreat Society ProgramsJohn F. Kennedy assassinatedMartin Luther King assassinatedNeil Armstrong first man on moon (Apollo missions)Beatles popular! 1970-1980 Arab oil embargoInflationGas ShortageDrug use more widespreadComputers become more commonWatergateRichard M. Nixon resigns as President! 1980-1990 John Lennon shot and killedBell telephone system divided into smaller companiesSally Ride-first female astronautSpace shuttle Challenger explodesAIDS virusRuptured Exxon tanker spills oilTexas elects first woman Governor since Reconstruction! 1990-2000 Nelson Mandella-apartheid ends in South AfricaPersian Gulf crisisEast and West Germany reunited-Berlin Wall taken downSoviet Union dissolvedFirst wave of “baby boomers” turns 50! 2001-2003 Collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City War with Iraq