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Eliezer Colón-Rivera; Raiza Peña-Cedeño – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
This research article discusses and analyzes an education program for older adults in Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, called the Cátedra Universitaria del Adulto Mayor (University Chair for Older Adults). Our interest in studying this program for older adults stems from the peculiarity of its designation as a university chair and, simultaneously, being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Education, Self Esteem
Billie R. McNamara – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
The United Nations (UN) declared 2021-2030 as the "Decade of Healthy Ageing." The World Health Organization (WHO) and other global programs developed initiatives in support of UN's goals, which include focus on lifelong learning. WHO refers to the "transformative pathway" in its 2021 "Decade of Healthy Ageing Baseline…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Aging Education, Older Adults, Health
Bulbul, Ali Haydar; Gunaydin, Serpil; Odabasi, Hatice Ferhan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
Life expectancy at birth is the highest of all times and tends to increase. This leads to an older society and brings out various needs that are not taken into consideration before, one of which is the education of older adults. People usually get the idea that older adults cannot learn or do not feel the need to learn. However, learning is an…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Electronic Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
Cegolon, Andrea; Jenkins, Andrew – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
Finding interventions which can address the decline of cognitive function as people get older is of great importance to policy-makers, especially in post-industrial societies with rapidly ageing populations. We examine the impact of several different types of mentally stimulating activities on cognitive function in a sample of community-dwelling…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Older Adults, Stimulation, Learning Activities
Nikitin, Jana; Rupprecht, Fiona Sophia; Ristl, Christina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Recent evidence suggests that older adults experience momentary states of spending time alone (i.e., solitude) less negatively than younger adults. The current research explores the role of autonomy as an explanation mechanism of these age differences. Previous research demonstrated that solitude can be experienced positively when it is…
Descriptors: Adults, Older Adults, Personal Autonomy, Age Differences
Melis, Giulia; Sala, Emanuela; Zaccaria, Daniele – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
There is an urgent need to understand the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemics on older people's lives. However, conducting qualitative research is challenging, because of the shortage of guidelines and methodological research on how to recruit and interview participants during biological disasters, such as pandemics. This paper documents the…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Videoconferencing, Interviews, Older Adults
Gau, Wen-Bing – SAGE Open, 2022
Senior citizens' communities of practice (CoPs) in Taiwan focus on the sharing of experiences and expertise, and engagement with issues of mutual concern. Because most of their members have a wealth of social experiences, as well as the time and strong motivation to learn new skills, these CoPs have strong potential to become learning environments…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Older Adults, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Ju Hyun Kim; Hye in Oh; Sang Ah Chun – Educational Gerontology, 2024
This study examined university students' perceptions of older adults. The study employed the photovoice, analyzing visual data (photographs) and in-depth interviews conducted with five university students to capture more accurate and candid images of older adults. Themes from photographs, interviews, and focus group discussions were organized into…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Photography, Visual Aids, College Students
Joanna Shorland; Jacinta Douglas; Robyn O'Halloran – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: There is a lack of evidence relating to cognitive-communication difficulties following traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained in older adulthood. A prominent area in which post-TBI cognitive-communication difficulties manifest is at the level of social communication. An investigation of social communication focusing on comparison of…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Brain, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills
Maria Alice Baraldi; Filippo Domaneschi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Research investigating pragmatic abilities in healthy aging suggests that both production and comprehension might be compromised; however, it is not clear how pragmatic abilities evolve in late adulthood, as well as when difficulties are more likely to arise. The aim of this study is to investigate the decline of pragmatic skills in aging, and to…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Skills, Ability, Aging (Individuals)
Sangjin Ma; Namhoon Kim; Sok An – International Review of Education, 2024
This study examined the association between literacy and quality of life among rural seniors in the Republic of Korea. A sample of rural seniors (N = 1,000) was surveyed by the Korea Rural Economic Institute in 2018, which assessed their literacy levels, their lifelong literacy education status and their quality of life. The authors' analyses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Literacy, Quality of Life
Sara J. Margolin; Timothy Brackins – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Negated text is a difficult text construction that readers encounter in various forms throughout their lives. Despite a wealth of research on its impact, including potential strategies to improve comprehension, readers maintain poor comprehension when encountering this text construction. Given its large potential impact on reading texts like…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Accuracy
Gabriele Moriello; M. C. Ehlman; Mary Ligon – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Interaction between generations is diminishing and fostering intergenerational contact can benefit both parties involved. The aim of this qualitative study was to develop a deeper understanding of the meaning of participating in an intergenerational oral history project using a phenomenological approach. Undergraduate students (n = 21) interviewed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Older Adults, Speech Communication, Oral History
Lun Li; Yeonjung Lee – Educational Gerontology, 2024
There is an increasing need of gerontological education in social work to enhance the knowledge of aging and interests in senior care among students. This study is conducted based on an experiential-learning strategy with a combination of having an ethnographic interview with an older adult and writing a reflection paper afterward as an assignment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, Professional Education, Older Adults
Sandra L. Faulkner; Madison A. Pollino; Jaclyn Shetterly; Wendy K. Watson – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2024
We present a critically focused, semester-long community engagement project entitled "Intergenerational Connections" as a form of critical interpersonal and family communication pedagogy (CIFCP). The project utilized Zoom to connect small groups of undergraduate students in the US enrolled in a course on relational communication with…
Descriptors: College Students, Older Adults, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education