When taking courses (or any other kind of professional development experience), it is important to think about how your new knowledge and skills can be applied to your career. Similarly, it is very important to consider what jobs this experience may help you get, and how to show off your newly acquired expertise. In this discussion, you will collaborate with peers to share observations, suggestions, and helpful tips related to job searching.

First, take some time to explore a few job postings for your ideal career. The following websites may be helpful to use:

LinkedIn
Indeed
The IMA Featured Jobs webpage
The “Search for Jobs” area of the SNHU Career page (available through the SNHU Career module)
As you explore, take note of key terms, requirements, preferences, and skills that are listed that relate to knowledge and skills covered in this course. Then, for your initial post briefly address the following questions:

What is your ideal career, and what about it interests you?
When exploring job postings related to your ideal career, what knowledge and skills were listed that directly relate to this course?
What key terms or experiences would you include in your resume, cover letter, or interview to showcase your relevant knowledge and skills related to the job posting?
Were there certain modules, topics, or skills from this course that you feel were especially relevant for your ideal career?

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1. Review major governmental policies and programs that relate to services for older adults and discuss the focus and impact of one selected policy.
2. Collect information that describes your own community and its aging population.
3. Survey the breadth and depth of resources needed to promote the quality of life for all who reside within a given community.
4. Inventory and appraise the adequacy of resources within the environment of your own community to support a positive quality of life for its adult population.
5. Assess the level of satisfaction with services as expressed by older adults and providers of care for older adults in your community.
   This lesson addresses the following course objectives:

• Recognize the wide range of existing alternatives for delivery of health care to aging people and identify opportunities for development of additional services based on identified needs and societal trends.
• Identify some of the political, social, and economic issues important to health care systems as they deal with the needs of aging clients.
import_contactsReadings

• Quadagno, Chapters 14, 15, and 16
• Lesson 12 Lecture Notes
assignmentActivities & Assessments

Written Assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to help you become more aware of the services for aging adults that are available in your community, and to encourage you to make direct contact with selected providers and consumers of these services. Of particular interest here is the recognition that basic services for all community residents are the backbone of what is needed by older adults as well.
Start with those basic elements of your community environment before going on to more specialized services designed solely for its older residents. Using this information, write a 5 page paper in which you:

1. Describe your community as to location, geography, size, transportation, recreational, economic, cultural, and demographic characteristics, including the break-down of various age groups in the population.
2. Conduct a survey of your community’s services, both general and specific to aging people. You may find it helpful to start with your

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Strategic issues can come in many shapes and forms, and a fundamental part of solving any such issue is defining it in the first place. This assignment therefore starts with this challenge. Generally speaking, strategic issues can be characterised as developments inside and/or outside your chosen organisation that are likely to impact on its long-term success or survival. These issues can include but, are not limited to the emergence of new competition, eroding market segments , new regulation, new technological synergies and possibilities, major shifts in consumer behaviour and attitudes and so on. A good way to get you started will be for you read widely in the business press, pick out headlines of ideas that signalled a strategic issue for a particular company or industry in the near future, and start thinking of your story, before you dive into your strategic analysis. Examples of such mini-cases can be found in your core textbook: R.M. Grant, Contemporary Strategy Analysis.

Make it interesting! Your case may focus on one or two strategic problem or issue – make sure that the issue(s) you choose are clearly defined and explained and that you do not exceed the word count. Ideally the title of the mini-case will be a provocative question that you intend to evaluate or critique. At the end of the case, I will advise that you end with one or two questions or a clear summary statement that would prepare readers of the case for the second part of your assignment.

In summary, when developing your mini-case you must (a) think critically about what strategic issue (s) you want to address, (b) consider which strategy framework(s) might be appropriate for analysing the issue, and (c) recognise that strategy problems rarely fit neatly into one framework.

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Identify local, state, and national resources which facilitate safe and effective transitions of care for older adults.
Your supervisor at Rasmussen Home Health Services is satisfied with the resources described in your annotated bibliography and is eager for you to continue your work. As a next step, your supervisor wants you to develop and share the following items with them.

Write an introduction about your in-service presentation topic.
Create an outline that identifies and describes the important content areas for your in-service presentation

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Answer the following questions on a separate document (Microsoft Word .docx), exploring how Descartes develops his ideas on the nature of the mind in the 2nd Meditation.

1. According to Descartes, what is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me?
2. What, according to Descartes, am I? What is the nature of the mind?
3. Exactly what does the argument concluding at the end of the third paragraph of Meditation II prove? Does it prove that Descartes exists? Does it prove that I (the reader) exist? Does it prove to me that I exist? (Are these last two questions different?)
4. How does Descartes go about imagining himself without a body? Can you really imagine yourself without a body? Can you conceive of having sensations — sights, sounds, smells, etc. — without a body? Could you be without being somewhere and some when?
5. What does Descartes say is the nature of material bodies? (Is he right?)
6. In the example of the wax, if the wax really changes all of its sensory qualities (i.e., the qualities that the senses can perceive), then what makes me think there is any one thing here at all? Does any collection of sensory qualities make up the sensations of an object?
7. What important conclusion about the nature or character of the mind does Descartes draw from the example of the piece of wax?

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