Interview with Older Adult

Running head: INTERVIEW WITH OLDER ADULT 1
Interview with Older Adult
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Interview with Older Adult
Introduction
The following discussion is premised on assignment that required each student to produce
a paper anchored on the interview I completed with my mother as an adult age 60+ years. My
interviewee is mother, person who is my relative. Therefore, I conducted the interview with my
mother, who is 84 years of age. Our interview was narrowed about the family. The main topics I
covered with my mother included her childhood, at teen years, young adult, and history. The
purpose of this assignment is to undertake an evaluation of the differences and similarities
between consensus in the field and a single person’s experiences. Therefore, this paper critically
considers aspects of history-graded events, age-related events, alongside non-normative life
events. The evaluation is anchored on the thought about and explanation of how such individual
differences dictates the interactions with others, beliefs and values.
Interview Results
The following topics were covered in the interview and the results are as explained
below:
Childhood
Under childhood, I sought to inquire about many things to know about my mother’s
childhood. I got to understand that my mother was the last born in a family of 8 children. She
had two brothers and five sisters who are all deceased. My mother also explained that she had a
very close knit family and she loved all of her siblings and parents. She constantly thinks about
all of her siblings and usually wonder how her life would be in case her parents and siblings were
still with her. I got to understand how my mother and her siblings had a strong bond as witnessed
in her explanation of always ever being together.

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My mother also explained to me how they worked in the fields from sunrise to sunset, but
she did not care since she was always with her sisters and brothers who protected her. She also
told me how she loved school and she and her sister were in same grade. She told me how she
and her sister stood inseparable and they always did everything in unison as her sister was her
best friend during their childhood.
Teen Years
I also got to know much about the first person my mother dated or her first date. She
explained how she dated a handsome, sweet and kind man. She could not really express herself
during her first date well. This is because she had little time with her first man as her parents
gave her a curfew of 10.00 PM. Thus she had to get back home by that time or else and she
would make her parents unhappy, which she never wanted to be the case.
Further, I questioned my mother on what she would treat as the most challenging moment
about being a teenager. She explained that her teenage years stood was that every time she went
out, one of her siblings had to accompany her. While sometimes she never minded, she,
however, explained that she occasionally wanted to be alone with her friends, and hence such
accompaniments stood challenging.
Young Adult:
I also wanted to know about my mother’s first time she met her husband (my father) as a
young adult. She to me that she and my dad met when she was twenty years old. She was at the
church service and she was singing on the choir. My would-be dad was then a visitor that Sunday
and following the service, he introduced himself to my mother and told her that she had a
beautiful voice. She explained how my dad told her she wanted to get to know her. However,
my mother was surprised as she never knew my would-be dad was a friend with one of her

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brothers in high school. She explained how my dad asked her for her contact and wanted to know
if he could take her out on a date. She was excited and never hesitated to say yes and they dated
afterwards for one year and got married the following year. I also asked my mum regarding the
number of children they had with my father. She explained that she got pregnant nine times, and
she had eight living children because one of her child has succumbed to illness.
I also wanted to gauge her opinion about whether she thought she was a good parent as a
young adult. She never heisted but say that she was of course a good parent as she attempted to
be the best mother she could be. She explained further that she was a disciplinarian in her family
and she did much of punishing leading to all her children being disciplined. I further wanted to
know whether my mother thought parenting stood a hard task then than back when she was
rearing her children. She explained that being a mother currently is harder, as back in the days
the kids stood respectful and obedient to their respective parents and elders. The modern-day
children lack respect and manners.
History:
I wanted to know about the number of grandchildren my mother had. She explained that
she had twenty grandchildren with ages ranging from 15 to 44. She had a bunch of a great
grandchildren, great-great grandchildren. She was also expecting to have a great-great-great
grandchild in a couple of months. She further explained that her family would be a five
generation strong and that her family was still growing and she was thankful to God for his
wonderful blessings.
I also asked my mother whether she was driving and she answered that she had never
driven her car since she fell sick. She explained how she stood hesitant to regarding driving after
being sick and her children feel as if she should give up driving. However, she said that she was