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Peer reviewedJones, C. Jessie; Rikli, Roberta E. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1993
Provides a brief overview of the gerontology movement and looks at health, physical education, recreation, and dance (HPERD) curriculum development and professional preparation focusing on the implications for serving the growing older population, educating younger people for successful aging, and improving HPERD status within the field of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Curriculum Development, Gerontology, Health Education
Peer reviewedKnight, Bob; Walker, Deborah Lower – Gerontologist, 1985
Offers proposed definitions of "frail elderly" and "range of institutional care", and argues that an active problem-solving, treatment-oriented approach can reduce unnecessary institutionalization and that the movement to deinstitutionalize the elderly can learn from the history of the deinstitutionalization of other groups.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Health Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Gerontology
American Occupational Therapy Association, Rockville, MD. – 1995
These abstracts of conference presentations are intended to serve as a record and reference of current clinical practice, program planning, and research ideas and results in the field of occupational therapy. Abstracts are grouped in the following categories: (1) preconference institutes; (2) general interest; (3) administration/management; (4)…
Descriptors: Administration, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Payne, Barbara, Ed.; Brewer, Earl D. C., Ed. – 1989
This collection reports on the Gerontology in Theological Education (GITE) project developed at the Gerontology Center of Georgia State University, which was designed to introduce curriculum on aging into theological education. Part 1 presents an introduction to the project and the results of a survey of 113 seminaries designed to find out what…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Church Related Colleges, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
Download full textPayne, Barbara; Brewer, Earl D. C. – 1988
This report discusses the activities of the Gerontology in Theological Education (GITE) project developed at the Gerontology Center of Georgia State University, which was designed to introduce curriculum on aging into theological education. The project was designed to develop and conduct a basic gerontology course sequence and modules for three…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Church Related Colleges, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development
Payne, Barbara, Ed.; Brewer, Earl D. C., Ed. – 1989
This collection reports on the Gerontology in Theological Education (GITE) project developed at the Gerontology Center of Georgia State University, which was designed to introduce curriculum on aging into theological education. It focuses on the experiences of the Gerontology Center and three seminaries involved in the project: Candler School of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Church Related Colleges, Counseling Techniques
Ward, Betty Arnett – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
Since aging has become a field of increasing interest, many requests for information on the educational aspects of the subject have been received in the Office of Education. Because of the growing number of these requests, and because so few items bearing on education are included in the reference lists in the general field of aging, this…
Descriptors: Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Older Adults, Adult Education
