Proposal
Trevon Davis
Sports and Medical Sciences Academy 280 Huyshope Ave Hartford, CT 06106 Dear Mrs. Boutilier: For my Capstone, I want to communicate with the elderly to see how talking about their childhood and experiences growing up can affect their cognition and mood throughout the day. I want to do this Capstone project because I really like elderly people, and they’re a great source of learning what certain times were like, and even though there’s history books that may be able to describe these times, those books can’t capture what it felt like to be alive during those times. This project will most likely only be done over video calls and in-person when I can, but the elderly in homes are being quarantined off to the public due to COVID-19. The only time I'll probably ever be able to get in person is with elderly people that I or my family knows personally. For my research question, I want to know how does having an elderly person above the age of 70 talk about their childhood or something they experienced, and see how it can affect their mood and cognitive abilities. You won’t find that research. You need to look at the effect of socializing on their cognitive, physical and mental health. This research question is related to my Capstone project because it is an observation that can be made when I am interviewing these elderly people, and these elderly people can teach me interesting things that I may have not known previously. |