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Direct linkNuntiya Doungphummes; Kwanchit Sasiwongsaroj; Theeraphong Boonrugsa; Sirintorn Bhibulbhanuvat; Waraporn Suebwongsuwan – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2024
Media literacy is a much-needed competency in the digitalised world, but it is still an unknown knowledge base for older Thai adults. This design-based research set out as an initiative to promote media literacy through an age-friendly and culture-responsive training programme. The design process involved focus groups with key stakeholders and…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Adult Students, Media Literacy, Older Adults
Boscart, Veronique M.; Crutchlow, Lauren; Taucar, Linda Sheiban; Schelling, Sandra; Fung, Elliott; Betini, Raquel S. D.; Heckman, George; Hirdes, John – Educational Gerontology, 2019
Home care workers deliver care services to community-dwelling seniors across Canada, but home care workers' variable education and unfamiliarity with assessment data systems can impede client-centered care. This pilot study therefore examined the effectiveness and feasibility of five educational modules on geriatric care, developed with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Health Aides, Older Adults, Geriatrics
Maulod, Ad; Lu, Si Yinn – Educational Gerontology, 2020
The National Silver Academy (NSA) was launched in 2016 as part of the Singapore government's Action Plan for Successful Aging. This paper uses a grounded approach to explore and assess critical geragogical elements that are enabling, empowering and transformative for older learners. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 48…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Transformative Learning
Download full textTremethick, Mary Jane; Johnson, Maureen K.; Carter, Mary R. – International Electronic Journal of Health Education, 2011
Quality end-of-life care is subjective and based on individual values and beliefs. An advance directive provides a legal means of communicating these values and beliefs, as well as preferences in regards to end-of-life care when an individual is no longer able to make his or her desires known. In many nations, advance directives are underused…
Descriptors: Terminal Illness, Health Services, Death, Values
Gruhn, Daniel; Gilet, Anne-Laure; Studer, Joseph; Labouvie-Vief, Gisela – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The authors investigated normative beliefs about personality development. Young, middle-aged, and older adults indicated the age-relevance of 835 French adjectives by specifying person characteristics as typical for any age decade from 0 to 99 years. With this paradigm, the authors determined age-relevance (How typical is a characteristic for a…
Descriptors: Personality Development, Adolescents, Young Adults, Adults
DiGioia, Melissa Keyes – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2011
Attitudes and beliefs about sexuality are informed by a variety of sources, including faith-based traditions. This lesson is designed for older adults to explore sexuality-related messages and values that are based on spiritual or faith perspectives. Participants will reflect upon their past learning, evaluate their present day attitudes about…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Sexuality, Religious Factors, Beliefs
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
De Neys, Wim; Van Gelder, Elke – Developmental Science, 2009
Popular reasoning theories postulate that the ability to inhibit inappropriate beliefs lies at the heart of the human reasoning engine. Given that people's inhibitory capacities are known to rise and fall across the lifespan, we predicted that people's deductive reasoning performance would show similar curvilinear age trends. A group of children…
Descriptors: Conflict, Inhibition, Young Adults, Logical Thinking
