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An Intergenerational E-Mail Pal Project on Attitudes of College Students toward Older Adults
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Chase, Carla A. – Educational Gerontology, 2011
Intergenerational interactions have demonstrated some success at improving attitudes of college students toward older adults. This quasiexperimental study involved undergraduate college students paired with older adults for a six-week e-mail exchange. Student attitudes toward older adults were measured pre- and posttest with Polizzi's revised…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, Intervention, Student Attitudes
Attitudes toward Older Adults: A Reexamination of Two Major Scales
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Iwasaki, Michiko; Jones, James A. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2008
Two studies were conducted to reexamine the psychometric properties of two major scales measuring attitudes toward older adults. The Kogan Attitudes Toward Old People Scale (Kogan OP Scale; Kogan, 1961b) was administered to a sample of 512 college students in Study One. The refined version (Polizzi & Millikin, 2002) of the Aging Semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Autism, Factor Structure, Older Adults
Three Strategies for Delivering Continuing Medical Education in Geriatrics to General Practitioners
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Rikkert, Marcel G. M.; Rigaud, Anne-Sophie – Educational Gerontology, 2004
General practitioners (GPs) need advanced skills in geriatric assessment to be competent to treat the increasing number of elderly patients. Continuing medical education in geriatrics for GPs is heterogeneous, and not assessed for effectiveness. In this study we compared the educational effects of three geriatric post-graduate training methods on…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Training Methods