The purpose of this paper is to reflect on a specific area of adult development (Gait and Balance). However, you will need to focus on how the brain changes, environmental impact, and other subtopics that effect (Gait and Balance) with age.

Your job in this assignment is to provide specific information for your rationale for choosing this topic:

• What is it that you hope to gain from proposing such research?

• Are you proposing to add to existing research, consider a new topic in research, or alter an existing study that might include new factors?

• What do we not yet know about this topic? Have you found any apparent gaps in knowledge, important questions that research has not yet addressed?

Consider how your experience has helped you to develop an interest in this topic, and how gaps in the research have led you to unanswered questions.

Instructions:

1. Consider a variety of aspects of this topic, and attempt to identify the aspect that interests you most right now.

2. Analyze the information that is currently available on your topic. Begin searching the library for resources on the aspect or aspects of (Gait and Balance). Take note of the extent to which scholarly resources are already available on the aspects of (Gait and Balance). Scan article abstracts to get a better idea of the current level of knowledge about your topic. Look for specific questions that you find important, and especially those that the literature does not seem to have addressed. You can find these in the conclusions of research studies. Authors point out areas that have not been investigated and that are ripe for future research.

3. When you think you know what you want to investigate, create a draft of this assignment, including:

a) A clear definition of your topic, including the primary question or questions to which you are seeking answers.

b) A description of two realistic situations in which this question is likely to arise.

c) An explanation of why it is important to be able to answer this question.