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Maritz, Alex; Eager, Bronwyn; De Klerk, Saskia – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2021
Not only do Australian mature-aged entrepreneurs contribute $11.9 billion per annum to the Australian economy in over 379,000 businesses, they launch approximately 14,000 new businesses each year and actively contribute to fiscal, social, health, and active ageing outcomes in their communities. Thirty-four per cent of all young businesses in…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Employment, Foreign Countries, Older Adults
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Kim, Eun Hae; Chee, Kyong Hee; DeStefano, Clay; Broome, Anna; Bell, Brenda – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Community-based exercise classes may enhance health outcomes for older adults, but they tend to have high drop-out rates. Given age integration theory, structuring social support opportunities may be one effective solution for this problem. The objectives of this study are to determine 1) if the proposed 'Intergenerational Exercise Buddy Program'…
Descriptors: Persistence, Intergenerational Programs, Physical Activities, Older Adults
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Burke, Geraldine; Alfrey, Laura; Hall, Clare; O'Connor, Justen – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
This article explores how the Museum, Art and Wellbeing project brought primary school children and seniors from the same local community together to engage in explorative activities designed to reveal individual and mutual assets for wellbeing. The Museum, Art and Wellbeing project undertook a participatory arts-based approach to investigate how…
Descriptors: Well Being, Intergenerational Programs, Museums, Elementary School Students
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Gandhi, Pooja; Mancopes, Renata; Sutton, Danielle; Plowman, Emily K.; Steele, Catriona M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Dysphagia is thought to be prevalent and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in people with Parkinson disease (PwPD). The aim of this study was to compare the frequencies of atypical and extreme values for measures of swallowing physiology in PwPD and in an age- and sex-matched cohort of healthy adults. Atypical and extreme values…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Physical Disabilities, Human Body, Physiology
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de Guzman, Allan B.; Laguilles-Villafuerte, Salvacion – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Growing older is a natural occurrence experienced by all human beings, but a plurality of perspectives influences how understanding aging deviates in multiple context. Senescence now enthuses a profound substantiation to appreciate harmonious aging. Among the diverse corpora of data, songs are found to be useful in communicating, motivating and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Singing, Older Adults, Psychological Patterns
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Jung, Yunkyung; Choi, Sunha – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Receiving timely health screening is associated with important public health benefits among older adults. By focusing on the role of social relationships, the present study was aimed at examining longitudinal trajectories of health screening use among older adults in Korea, whose universal health care system provides free-of-charge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Influences
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Turcotte, Samuel; Shea, Carolann; Raymond, Émilie; Ansaldo, Ana Inés; Bier, Nathalie; Grenier, Sébastien; Hebblethwaite, Shannon; Lamontagne, Marie-Ève; Levasseur, Mélanie; Viscogliosi, Chantal; Ladjadj, Fatima; Filiatrault, Johanne – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
Intergenerational initiatives have the potential to bring generations together and can have a wide range of benefits for the health of older adults as well as for the development of young people. This paper presents a five-phase participatory action research protocol for the co-design and pilot implementation of a toolkit supporting…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Program Implementation, Community Organizations
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Viscardi, A. A. F.; Figueiredo, J. P.; Luiz, M. E. T.; Marinho, A. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
This qualitative exploratory research explores meanings that practitioners of adventure activities in nature, who are 60+ years old, attribute to their activities and leisure. The intentionally selected participants were 24 practitioners of adventure activities in nature, in Florianópolis, Brazil. The instruments were a semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Outdoor Education, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Geng, Yanchuan; Jin, Lixian – Educational Gerontology, 2023
This paper investigated a research area worthy of greater attention: foreign language classroom anxiety (hereafter FLCA) and enjoyment (hereafter FLE) of older adults learning English as a foreign language in Chinese Universities of the Third Age. Understanding the largely overlooked emotional involvement of older language learners contributes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moberly, Aaron C.; Varadarajan, Varun V.; Tamati, Terrin N. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: When listening to speech under adverse conditions, older adults, even with "age-normal" hearing, face challenges that may lead to poorer speech recognition than their younger peers. Older listeners generally demonstrate poorer suprathreshold auditory processing along with aging-related declines in neurocognitive functioning that…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Acoustics, Sentences, Word Recognition
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McGarrigle, Ronan; Mattys, Sven – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Listening-related fatigue is a potential negative consequence of challenges experienced during everyday listening and may disproportionately affect older adults. Contrary to expectation, we recently found that increased reports of listening-related fatigue were associated with better performance on a dichotic listening task. However, this…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Listening, Fatigue (Biology)
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Brennan, Damien; D'Eath, Maureen; McCallion, Philip; McCarron, Mary – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Background: As the life expectancy of people with intellectual disability increases, they may now outlive their parents or their parents' ability to continue to care. Siblings of adults with intellectual disability often succeed their parents as primary carers. Little is known about the health and well-being of this important cohort of carers who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Siblings, Caregivers
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Chan, Keith T.; Marsack-Topolewski, Christina; LaFave, Sarah; Ratnayake, Maggie; Graves, Jillian; Fenske, Diane; Jones, Lynn – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
The Supporting Older Adults & Caregivers: Integrative Service Learning (SOCIAL) partnership trains undergraduate social work students to provide practical home-based support for older adults with chronic illness and their family caregivers, serving as a pipeline for future leaders in older adult care. More than 2 million older adults are…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Caregivers, Undergraduate Students, Social Work
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Kraiger, Kurt; Cavanagh, Thomas M.; Willis, Colin M. G. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2020
The purposes of the present investigation were to attempt to replicate the negative effects for learning prompts in older adults reported by Cavanagh, Kraiger and Peters (2016), determine if the impact of learning prompts depends on type of prompt, and investigate the two possible explanations of the negative impact of prompts -- increased…
Descriptors: Cues, Older Adults, Difficulty Level, Training Methods
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Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Michelle Oraa Ali; Paula Rubio-Fernandez – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
This study aims to advance our understanding of the nature and source(s) of individual differences in pragmatic language behavior over the adult lifespan. Across four story continuation experiments, we probed adults' (N = 496 participants, ages 18-82) choice of referential forms (i.e., names vs. pronouns to refer to the main character). Our…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Individual Differences, Pragmatics, Aging (Individuals)
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