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Ratsoy, Ginny – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This article makes the case that Canadian universities--both within and beyond their campuses--must broaden their visions of third-age learners. Canadian third-age learners--defined for the purposes of this article as persons seeking formalized education who are in the stage of life beginning at retirement--are more numerous, active, financially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Role, Adult Students, Adult Learning
Tabuchi, Megumi; Miura, Asako – Educational Gerontology, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of young people's reactions to changes in older people's generativity when wisdom is transmitted to the younger people. Participants included 48 male adults aged 63-77 years. Each participant was assigned to either the condition of "wisdom from experiences of failure" or the…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Males, Older Adults, Personal Narratives
Lee, Ya-Hui – Educational Gerontology, 2016
In Taiwan, older adults over the age of 65 made up 12.51% of the population in 2015, causing the government to promote older adult education to help achieve active aging. As a result, more elderly people have attended learning activities and applied new skills to volunteering. The researcher conducted focus group interviews with 93 older adults…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Spiritual Development, Older Adults
Rudner, Mary; Mishra, Sushmit; Stenfelt, Stefan; Lunner, Thomas; Rönnberg, Jerker – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Seeing the talker's face improves speech understanding in noise, possibly releasing resources for cognitive processing. We investigated whether it improves free recall of spoken two-digit numbers. Method: Twenty younger adults with normal hearing and 24 older adults with hearing loss listened to and subsequently recalled lists of 13…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Recall (Psychology), Older Adults, Young Adults
Leung, D. D. M. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
Senior volunteer teachers play important roles in learning programmes for the elderly. These volunteers' level of teaching satisfaction was assumed to influence programmes, their organizational behaviours and outcomes. However, scant research has focused specifically on volunteers' levels of satisfaction with teaching and how their satisfaction is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Volunteers, Teacher Role, Older Adults
Yaakob, Hafisah; Wan Hassan, Wan Hartini; Daud, Siti Rohana – Asian Journal of University Education, 2016
Generally, this study explains the digital divide among older workers of age 50 to 58 years in public and private sectors in the state of Melaka. The main purpose of the study is to reveal and distinguish the factors that contribute to digital divide among older workers of age 50 to 58 years in public and private sectors. According to the Ministry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Employees, Technological Literacy
Kozerska, Agnieszka – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2016
The objective of the paper is to explore the relationship between participation in senior organisations and ways of ageing among older people. Moreover, the author focuses on determining whether the type of organisations (religious/non-religious) distinguish different groups of seniors in terms of lifestyle and perception of ageing. The analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Religion
Porcellato, Lorna; Carmichael, Fiona; Hulme, Claire – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2016
Accurately documenting the occupational biographies of older people can be challenging given their lengthy duration and the complexity of contemporary employment. This paper shows how a traditionally quantitative occupational history calendar (OHC) instrument can be adapted for use in a mixed methods research design, to gather in-depth information…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Research Methodology, Mixed Methods Research, Data Collection
Appelt, Lianne C. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The following qualitative study examines the usability of a custom-designed Internet safety tutorial, targeted at elderly individuals who use the Internet regularly, for effectively conveying critical information regarding online fraud, scams, and other cyber security. The elderly population is especially at risk when it comes to fraudulent…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Usability, Internet, Safety
Allen, Nara L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of a computer cognitive training program on depression levels in older mildly cognitive impaired individuals. Peterson et al. (1999), defines mild cognitive impairment (MCI) as a transitional stage in which an individual's memory deteriorates and his likelihood of developing Alzheimer's…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Neurological Impairments, Depression (Psychology), Training
Kao, I-Chan; Chang, Liang-Chih – Educational Gerontology, 2017
We examined whether a 12-week leisure education program could promote leisure autonomy and leisure competence and reduce stress in older adults. Forty subjects were randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a control group. Before the experiment, pretest data were collected using leisure autonomy, leisure competence, and stress scales.…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Leisure Time, Outcomes of Education, Control Groups
Kurth, Maria L.; Intrieri, Robert C. – Educational Gerontology, 2017
The present study assessed knowledge of aging, ageism, and attitudes toward aging in undergraduate recreation and law enforcement majors. Past research with psychology, social work, and nursing majors showed that greater knowledge of aging was related to fewer ageist attitudes and beliefs. The results showed that law enforcement students possessed…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Recreation, Majors (Students), Student Attitudes
Carragher, Lucia – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2017
The changing social and economic landscape across European Member States and beyond has had a disproportionate effect on older adults. Nowhere is this more keenly felt than among the "buffer generation" of men caught between the silent, strong, austere masculinity of their forefathers and contemporary society--progressive, open and…
Descriptors: Males, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Mixed Methods Research
Kolmos, John A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Older adults face many challenges in the workplace, one being the advancement of technologies both in hardware and software development. The purpose of the study was to understand the learned experiences of older adults integrating advanced technologies into their critical decision-making work experience because of training. Literature claimed a…
Descriptors: Air Transportation, Older Adults, Decision Making, Age Differences
Pitkälä, Kaisu H.; Finne-Soveri, Harriet; Immonen, Susanna; Lehti, Tuuli; Tiilikainen, Ida; Vesterinen, Teppo; Saarinen, Esa – Educational Gerontology, 2018
This article describes a new type of team training that involves undergraduate students of medicine, students from the Aalto University (industrial engineering and management, architecture, information networks, collaborative and industrial design and bioinformation technology) and specialized home care nurses. During the course, the students…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork, Older Adults, Medical Students