Independent Component 1

LITERAL

• I, Jocelyn Sanchez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 33 hours hours of work.
• (b) Works Cited
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_25XELuHqZWXHeRHetaJpfUH2EYQxOv3wko3B5CvOo/edit?usp=sharing .
• (d) Explain what you completed.    
• Throughout the course of my 30 hours I worked with Gennesis Romero to create an accessible online platform (WordPress) which the public can use to help identify different disorder and major contributors that can affect the mental health of an elderly once they reach the approximate age of 60 years. We also created a Pintrest platform to reach the ages of those 15-25 and created an Instagram account to target teenagers so that they will want to care for their grandparents or elder members of their family or life.

INTERPRETIVE

• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
• https://mentalelderhealth.wordpress.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/mentalelder/
• https://www.pinterest.com/mentalelderheal/

APPLIED

• How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
• This component made it simple for me to learn about my topic because I was able to specifically research components that are also major contributors on suicide. Although we did cover suicide plenty, it was not the entire purpose of our blog. The purpose was to educate the public and in doing research both Gennesis and myself were given the opportunity to expand our horizons on our topics. Since I had prior knowledge to the elderly, and her topic was geriatrics, I was able to provide her with some tools that I had found prior to this project. As for myself, the research I put into this blog also allowed me to look deeper into aspects like abandonment and abuse that dragged me further into the science that leads to suicide, and I probably would not have gotten so intrigued if it were not for this.