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Chiquita DeLa Emel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study aimed to understand how educators view aging and emphasized how educators' past experiences with older adults and personal comfort level with aging influenced their beliefs and desire to teach about aging topics. Ageism harms older adults by creating adverse physical, mental, emotional, and socioeconomic health risks.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Older Adults
Veronica Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine for healthcare delivery was uncommon. Medicare restricted routine fee-for-service reimbursements for rural patients, with payments made under restricted circumstances. In response to the pandemic, the Department of HHS amended the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Health Services, Health Insurance, COVID-19
Kong, Erick – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The Problem: The purpose of this study was to explore the association between the knowledge competencies and the job tasks among Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialists (CTRS) who are working with the senior population in the State of California by asking the following questions: (1) To what extent are CTRS using the principle of group…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Recreational Activities, Therapeutic Recreation, Group Activities
Puffer, Kristine Widmer – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examines the reactions of veteran artists to some issues associated with the process of creating visual art that can cause fear, fear significant enough to derail many professional artists and cause them to quit making art altogether. Based on the writings of Bayles and Orland and enhanced by J. M. Erikson, this study provides insight…
Descriptors: Artists, Visual Arts, Art Activities, Fear
Mattson, Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research indicates that stress is steadily increasing among college administrators. This has implications for the California Community College (CCC) system's ability to recruit and retain qualified leaders as the need to replace retiring baby boomers increases. For those working in leadership positions in CCCs, stress is compounded by the way that…
Descriptors: Governance, Leadership, Community Colleges, College Presidents
Terry, Clarence La Mont – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Urban schools, for many African American students, have effectively become a space for the perpetuation of modern slavery. Large numbers of students, particularly Black males, are being funneled without choice into low-wage labor sectors, military service, underground economies and, eventually, prisons or worse. Key work by math education…
Descriptors: Military Service, African American Students, Urban Schools, Race