This past week, I have began contacting experts for potential interviews to supplement the film. I personally contacted two gerontology professors from UNC Wilmington, Dr. Andrew Zeldin, who specializes in geriatric care management. Andrew is dedicated to older adults and their families and believes that educating young adults on aging issues will benefit the local community and society as a whole. Dr. Anne Glass is a leading researcher in the new field of senior co-housing and other elder self-directed intentional communities. She is especially interested in the potential for older adults to provide mutual support to each other. She is also interested in exploring the ways that communities can facilitate this process and be more age-friendly. I believe both professors have interesting and experienced backgrounds as it relates to the study of older people and I feel that they will provide helpful and important information for my film. They have also both gotten back to me quickly and are very much happy to take part in this project. I also reached out to a psychology professor on-campus, Dr. Alissa Dark-Freudeman to see if she would be able to provide input into the psychological/behavioral aspect of why older adults make the choices/decisions that they do when it comes to finding a place to live in the retirement stage of life. Later this week, I plan to contact the individual communities to see if there is possible interest in filming there, both from staff members and residents themselves. I also plan to contact the couple in Carolina Beach that have chosen to live out their retirement right on the water as home-owners.
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