Kelly Sisco
Multimedia Journalism
Monday & Thursday 12:30-1:45
Draw Your Way to a Longer Life
Interview People & Questions
Creative Aging
List of People I will be Interviewing -
Ruth Handel – Manager of the group called the
Poetry Caravan. This group reads poetry and short stores to people in nursing
homes and senior centers in hopes to brighten up their day.
Home Address – 3 Gilmore Court, Scarsdale NY 10583
Home Number – 914.472.0870
I will call Ruth and hopefully get to met with her in
person and have a face to face interview but if she is not available I will ask
her theses questions over the phone and try to record them to play back and
have on record. If we met in person I hope Ruth will let me video tape her. Having
the interview video taped would be the best way to get the best results and be
able to play back and see all her facial and emotional expressions.
In Person Video/Audio Interview
Sarah Bracey White – Director of Arts and culture of the
Town of Greenburg.
Arts & Culture committee Number -914.422.1038
Sarah’s Business Number – 914.682.1574
I will call Sarah and hopefully get to met with her in
person and have a face to face interview but if she is not available I will ask
her theses questions over the phone and try to record them to play back and
have on record. If we met in person I hope Sarah will let me video tape her.
Having the interview video taped would be the best way to get the best results
and be able to play back and see all her facial and emotional expressions.
In Person Video/Audio Interview
Karen Brinn – Friend of the family and was the Executive
Director of the Westchester Center for Creative Aging and worked with Senior Citizens for 25 years. Kbrinn@aol.com
Home Address – 1100 Warburton Ave, Apt. 4G, Yonkers
10701
Cell Number – 914.720.6969
Karen has much experience dealing with senior citizens
and I will call Karen and I know she would love to meet with me in person to
have a face-to-face interview. I already told her I picked this topic for my
class project and she was thrilled for me knowing it was a great topic and she
was grateful too that she could tell me all she knows in this area. When we met
in person I will get Karen to let me video tape her because we have a good
relationship. Having the interview video taped would be the best way to get the
best results and be able to play back and see all her facial and emotional
expressions.
In Person Video/Audio Interview
Mary Arefieg –
Coordinator at The Fountains at Rivervue (Assisted Living Facility)
Phone Number – 914.768.6000
Address – 1 Rivervue Place, Tuckahoe, NY 10707
I will go to the Foundations and get a face-to-face
interview with Mary. I’m not sure if she will let me video tape her but I will
at the least record her voice so I can play the answers back and have them on
record. In Person Audio Interview
Lynne Cohen - Recreational Coordinator of the Osborn
(Nursing home and Assisted Living facility)
icohen@theobsorn.org
101 Theall Road, Rye NY
914.925.8000 X 8259 or 925-8259
If Lynn is not there, then contact List Hoxie at: 914.925-8200
I hope to meet Lynne in person at the Osborn and get
an in person interview and since, I do not know her well I will get a tape
recoding of our interview to play back afterwards and have on record.
In Person Audio Interview
Following 10 Questions – To be asked & answered by
the people listed above
1. What made you want to work with senior
citizens, get involved with them and help them with the quality of their lives?
2. What activities, programs, or classes have you
found that senior citizens like and respond to the best? Also what activities,
programs, or classes have you seen them grow the most from after attending?
3. Are these activities, programs, or class only
offered at your facility or do you know if most senior communities offer them?
4. Can you
explain in depth a change you noticed in a certain senior citizen after they
attended one of these activities, programs, or classes? Explain how that senior
citizen was affected and if that change was positive or negative?
5. Do you feel that creative programs help senior
citizens and help them to live a healthier longer life? If yes, explain why
this might be so.
6. Would you encourage your loved one (who is a
senior citizen) to join any of these creative programs knowing what you know
about these types of programs? Do creative programs really make a difference in
their lives?
7. As a teacher of these creative programs have
you felt that your work has been rewarding and you have gotten pleasure out of
helping senior citizens? Talk about an especially rewarding time for you, if
there was one.
8. Describe a time when a senior citizen has
given you a hard time and did not want to cooperate with you? I am asking you
this because some senior citizens I have found can be somewhat difficult to get
to do things and are not willing to do things on their own unless you push
them.
9. Did you find that when after you encouraged a
senior citizen and got them to be creative even if they do not want to, you
found out that they really did love it after all and were glad that someone
encouraged them? I’m asking because some senior citizens do not have a passion
to do things at their age and have given up on life. As a result if you feel
this is true, than do you feel that having a creative outlet in your life keeps
your mind sharp and your body young. If yes, how so?
10. Has their been
any moments when with a senior citizen that have been emotional in a happy or
sad way? Explain this memory and talk about how it affected you who knows the
senior citizen? Also talk about if you saw a change in the senior citizen and
if that change has helped them in other aspects of their lives?
Speaking to a Senior Citizen Directly –
Nathaniel Goldberg – Friend of the family who is involved
in many creative activities, both by himself and in classes. I know that for him
being creative and doing these activities has had a positive affect on his
life. Home Address – 41 Point Street,
Apt. 2C Yonkers, NY 10701
Home Number – 914.736.5542 Cell Number –
1-845.222.0019
I will call him on the phone and pick a time that me
and him could meet in person to do the interview or at worst I could ask him
these questions over the phone and somehow record the answers to a tape so I
can play them back and have what he said on record. If we met him person I hope
Nathaniel will let me video tape him. Having the interview video taped would be
the best way to get the best results and be able to play back and see all his
facial and emotional expressions.
In Person Video/Audio Interview
I also want to talk to senior citizens who I do not
know at a nursing home or senior community/center after I go there and speak to
one of the directors I hope to find a senior citizen who is willing to talk
with me and be interviewed. Talk both to a senior citizen who participates in
creative activities and one who does not currently but might want to or who do creative
activities but on their own and not among others in a group setting.
1. Do you belong to any creative programs or
class or do you just like to do creative things by yourself? List the creative
activities you do by yourself or with others in a program or class.
2. What creative activities, program, or classes
do you enjoy best? Do you think being creative has affected you and helped you
to stay younger? If yes, explain why.
3. Have you made any friends through the creative
activities you enjoy and have you become friends with them because you share
the same interest? What is the mutual bond connecting the two of you? Friends
are important and could you talk about the time and how the two of you became
friends?
4. Is there a special place like a nursing home,
senior center or activities group that you enjoy best? If yes, where is the
place and what is the name of the center? If no, tell me what has made you not
join one of those places or groups? If you answered no, tell me if you just
like and enjoy being by yourself when doing your creative projects?
5. If you as a senior citizen could set up and
start your own class and get a group of people involved, would you? What type
of creative activities would you be doing in this class? Would you enjoy
teaching the class?
6. Do you know anyone who does not do any type of
creative activities but you think would benefit from doing creative activities
and experiencing them and making them a part of their life? If yes, why do you
feel creative activities would help that certain person
7. When in your life did you know that you were a
creative and expressive person? Talk about your first creative experience in
detail.
8. Are there any times when you cannot get your creative
juices flowing and you have a block and cannot think of what to creative.
Explain this feeling and what goes on in your head? What helps you to creative
and think imaginatively?
9. Talk about a time when you shared your creative work
with others and tell me about how others reacted to what you had shown them?
10. If you as a senior citizen were forced into having to
do a creative activity because someone told you that it would improve your
quality of life and after getting involved with something creative, are you
glad and do you see a change in your life. If yes, what kind of chance do you
see?
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