Gerotonology course Identifving dependence support and dependence-ignore scripts Read each story and answer the questions. Why is Grandma getting lazy? Anita is a 78-year-old woman with arthritis in her hands and knees. She is retired from her job as a kindergarten teacher. Before her arthritis got so bad, she was proud of her home and garden and kept everything beautiful. She loved to cook and bake, especially for her five grandchildren. As they got older and started high school and college, they have less time to visit. Still, when she calls them to ask for help with the house or garden, they find time to stop by to complete any task she asks them to do. She tries to have their favorite cookies ready, but they are too busy to stay and eat them with her, so she packs them to go. Lately, Anita is calling her grandchildren every day asking for help. She is doing less and less for herself and often doesn't have any baked goods to share. Her grandchildren suspect that she is asking them to do chores that she could do herself, and they miss her baking. Why doesn't Mom appreciate our help? Wendy is an 84-year-old woman bom in Trinidad. She came to New York when she was a young adult. She raised her five children while working full-time as a nurse. Now that she is retired, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, and she is active in her church. She can't see as well as she used to and has stopped driving. She rides the bus to church three times a week for services and activities. She walks to the grocery store with her shopping cart. Wendy's children worry about her walking alone or pushing the heavy cart home. They have decided that they will take tums driving her to church and doing her shopping for her. Wendy tried to protest that she did not need help, but they insisted. Lately. Wendy is starting to say she is too tired to go to her Wednesday and Friday evening church activities. She is cooking and eating less, even though her children keep her refrigerator filled..

1. Gerotonology course
Identifving dependence support and dependence-ignore scripts
Read each story and answer the questions.
Why is Grandma getting lazy?
Anita is a 78-year-old woman with arthritis in her hands and knees. She is retired from her job as a kindergarten
teacher. Before her arthritis got so bad, she was proud of her home and garden and kept everything beautiful. She
loved to cook and bake, especially for her five grandchildren.
As they got older and started high school and college, they have less time to visit. Still, when she calls them to ask for
help with the house or garden, they find time to stop by to complete any task she asks them to do. She tries to have
their favorite cookies ready, but they are too busy to stay and eat them with her, so she packs them to go.
Lately, Anita is calling her grandchildren every day asking for help. She is doing less and less for herself and often
doesn't have any baked goods to share. Her grandchildren suspect that she is asking them to do chores that she
could do herself, and they miss her baking.
Why doesn't Mom appreciate our help?
Wendy is an 84-year-old woman bom in Trinidad. She came to New York when she was a young adult. She raised
her five children while working full-time as a nurse. Now that she is retired, she enjoys spending time with family and
friends, and she is active in her church. She can't see as well as she used to and has stopped driving. She rides the
bus to church three times a week for services and activities. She walks to the grocery store with her shopping cart.
Wendy's children worry about her walking alone or pushing the heavy cart home. They have decided that they will
take tums driving her to church and doing her shopping for her. Wendy tried to protest that she did not need help, but
they insisted.
Lately. Wendy is starting to say she is too tired to go to her Wednesday and Friday evening church activities. She is
cooking and eating less, even though her children keep her refrigerator filled.