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Improving Clinical Care Outcomes for Canadian Seniors: Findings of a Pilot Study Evaluating an Applied Simulated and Integrated Learning Approach (ASILA) for Home Care Workers
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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
Educating for Virtue: How Wisdom Coordinates Informal, Non-Formal and Formal Education in Motivation to Virtue in Canada and South Korea
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Ferrari, Michel; Bang, Hyeyoung; Ardelt, Monika; Feng, Zhe – Journal of Moral Education, 2019
How do different forms of education contribute to value preferences? Clearly, informal education through personal experiences that shape one's sense of identity and frame cultural expectations and opportunities (as indexed by culture, gender and age-cohort), non-formal education through religious traditions and formal state-mandated education all…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Moral Values, Preferences
Regret in Later Life: Exploring Relationships between Regret Frequency, Secondary Interpretive Control Beliefs, and Health in Older Individuals
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Newall, Nancy E.; Chipperfield, Judith G.; Daniels, Lia M.; Hladkyj, Steven; Perry, Raymond P. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2009
The present study examined what older people regret, and the relationships between regret, health and life satisfaction. The study also explored the role of secondary interpretive control beliefs in relation to regret. Participants (N = 228; 79-98 years old) were asked to report on the content and frequency of their regret, secondary interpretive…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Death, Content Analysis, Physical Health
The Measure of the Trust Beliefs of Elderly Individuals.
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Rotenberg, Ken J. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1990
Examined trust beliefs of older adults (N=140) using a modified Rotter's trust scale. Identified a complex relationship between trust and income. Found a curvilinear shift with age in dependability of social-legal organizations attributed to postretirement experiences in middle-old age and a form of generativity in very old age. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Beliefs, Foreign Countries
Short-Term Changes in General and Memory-Specific Control Beliefs and Their Relationship to Cognition in Younger and Older Adults
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Bielak, Allison A. M.; Hultsch, David F.; Levy-Ajzenkopf, Judi; MacDonald, Stuart W. S.; Hunter, Michael A.; Strauss, Esther – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2007
We examined short-term changes in younger and older adults' control beliefs. Participants completed measures of general and memory-specific competence and locus of control on 10 bi-monthly occasions. At each occasion, participants rated their control beliefs prior to and following completion of a battery of cognitive tasks. Exposure to the set of…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Cognitive Ability, Memory, Beliefs
Just World Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Helping Elderly People: A Comparison of British and Candian University Students.
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MacLean, Michael J.; Chown, Sheila M. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1988
Compared attitudes towards beliefs in just world and helping elderly with social, economic, or health needs of British (N=71) and Canadian (N=124) university students. Found in both groups just world believers blamed elderly people for poor health or financial circumstances; Canadian believers tended to dismiss needs of elderly people for…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies