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Feng Zhao; Lin Fan; Jiao Zhang; Yan-e Liu; Jiaxing Jiang; Tongfei Bing – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This experiment employed viewing time methods to investigate the effects of individual differences in visuospatial working memory (VWM) on the processing of older adults' bridging inferences in the understanding of visual narratives. The results showed that older adults could make bridging inferences in visual narrative processing, and that VWM…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability

Myers, Jane E.; Navin, Sally L. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1984
Explores the special needs of older women who have no children. Uses a developmental framework to discuss physiological and social aging, adjustment to role losses, and lack of coping resources. Suggests implications for counselors. (JAC)
Descriptors: Females, Older Adults

Cavallaro, Marion L.; Ramsey, Marylou – Counseling and Values, 1988
Combines areas of counseling older adults and maintaining sound ethical practices in professional counseling by enumerating some ethical dilemmas encountered in gerocounseling, examining the American Association for Counseling and Development Ethical Standards (1981), and suggesting options for handling conflicts that may arise. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Counseling, Ethics, Gerontology

Glass, J. Conrad, Jr.; Smith, Judy L. – Educational Gerontology, 1984
Examines various values of crafts programs for older persons, including the potential economic returns of such programs. Discusses some problems related to the production and marketing of crafts along with the role of education in income-producing programs. (BH)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Handicrafts, Marketing, Older Adults

Clark, David C. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1993
Reviews some of dangers inherent in oversimplifying nature of suicide for public education purposes, then outlines model of elderly suicide derived from community-based psychological autopsy study. Hypothesizes that elderly persons who die by suicide have lifelong character fault that remains invisible until aging life-changes force issue into the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Models, Older Adults, Suicide
Stetzner, Kate – School Administrator, 2001
Describes the successful implementation of a senior volunteers program in the Butte (Montana) Public Schools known as the Retired and Seniors Volunteer Program (RSVP) funded by the National Senior Service Corp. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Older Adults, Volunteers
Hubbard, Linda, Ed.; Beck, Tom – 1984
Data appear to show that older Americans change their living arrangements only when their needs change and that, as long as they are able, older people prefer to make adjustments within the home they already occupy rather than move. This book was written for older adults who either want to stay in their current home or who are considering a move.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Housing, Housing Needs, Older Adults
American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. Consumer Housing Information Service for Seniors. – 1987
This document contains information on the Consumer Housing Information Service for Seniors (CHISS), a local service organized under the auspices of the American Association of Retired Persons and a local agency or organization that serves the elderly, which uses trained Housing Information Volunteers to provide information on an individual basis…
Descriptors: Housing, Information Sources, Older Adults, Resource Materials

Fritz, Dan – Gerontologist, 1979
This paper traces the evolution of the Administration on Aging's role as an advocate, identifies current advocacy activities, assesses the problems inherent in the agency's pursuit of such a role, and examines prospects for the agency's future advocacy activities. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Gerontology, Older Adults, Public Agencies

Liebig, Phoebe S. – Administration in Mental Health, 1983
Explores the administrative dilemmas of the imbalance between mental health needs of the elderly and funding for mental health programs to serve them. Discusses possible approaches to the problem. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Financial Support, Mental Health Programs, Older Adults

Daley, John Michael; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1989
Proposes strategies for development of participatory processes and systems that take into account reality of daily life in barrio for Chicano elderly. Recommends statistical data should be enriched by qualitative information for decision-making purposes: calm rationality of people discussing the problems of others should be balanced by fire of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Hispanic Americans, Models, Older Adults

Atchley, Robert C. – Gerontologist, 1989
Presents Continuity Theory, which holds that, in making adaptive choices, middle-aged and older adults attempt to preserve and maintain existing internal and external structures; and they prefer to accomplish this objective by using strategies tied to their past experiences of themselves and their social world. (Author)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Older Adults, Theories

Yew, Elizabeth; And Others – Gerontologist, 1989
The Comprehensive Periodic Assessment Form is an innovative way to document a patient's rehabilitation progress. This nonnarrative, semi-graphical form digests onto one page many sheets of progress notes. Mobility, Activities of Daily Living (ADL), mental, and medical status over time can be ascertained at a glance. Useful for the aged patient…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Geriatrics, Older Adults, Rehabilitation Programs

Weishaus, Sylvia; Field, Dorothy – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1988
Identified six types of very long-term marriages: stable/positive, stable/neutral, stable/negative, curvilinear, continuous decline, and continuous increase. Case records of 17 marriages lasting between 50 and 69 years revealed that nearly 75 percent of the marriages showed either curvilinear or stable/positive patterns. Found no continuous…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Marriage, Models, Older Adults

Canetto, Silvia Sara – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1992
Notes that, in North America, older women are less likely to be suicidal than older men. Focuses on older women's low rates of suicide mortality. On basis of literature review, suggests several hypotheses, including one that gender differences in suicide mortality reflect differences in coping and another that gender differences are influenced by…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Predictor Variables, Sex Differences, Suicide