Reflection Paper On Aging - 1710 Words

The movie Last Vegas (2013) thoroughly presented the concept of the embodied aging and experience by creating a storyline based on the character, Billy, shared the good news of him finally proposing to his much younger girlfriend with his dearest friends and wanted them to be supportive in his decision-making. All four friends decided to escape from their daily lives a couple of days in order to throw a bachelor party together for Billy in Las Vegas (Last Vegas, 2013). They have been best friends since childhood, yet have experienced a different aging journey (Last Vegas, 2013). In the film, seniors are perceived as dominant and powerful characters because of their life experiences and wisdom. The overview of my paper would be conducting†¦show more content†¦In the movie, Sam mentioned about Archie’s health condition to Paddy meanwhile trying to convince him to go to Las Vegas with the rest of them (Last Vegas, 2013). Sam indicated that Archie could not come up because of his heart problem and has had a stroke previously (Last Vegas, 2013). However, Archie did climb up the flights of stairs without breathing difficulties when he overheard the conversations (Last Vegas, 2013). Thus, it demonstrated the accomplishment of age in which we would not expect such an elderly with these health conditions do such a thing as well as implied that elderly can be positive role model. II. Stereotype embodiment and by what means this happens (and/ or if this is rejected/accepted) In the article of Levy (2009) refocused on the issue of positive and negative age, stereotypes held by older individuals can cause both beneficial and detrimental consequences, respectively, on a variety of cognitive and physical outcomes. The article stated that stereotype can be internalized and view as â€Å"self-perception of aging† (Levy, 2009). 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