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Akif Mustafa; Chander Shekhar – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Life satisfaction is an important component of successful aging and is known to be associated with health, well-being, and longevity. This study examines the association between children's educational attainment and life satisfaction among older parents in India while also exploring the moderating effect of the children's and parents' sex on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Life Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship
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Manacy Pai; Chandan Kumar; Lucky Singh; Prashant Kumar Singh – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The health and well-being of older parents, especially in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) like India, depend on adult children. As such, using the 2017-18 wave 1 of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), we examined (1) the association between adult children's education and older parents' cognitive health in India; (2) the extent to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Children, Older Adults
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Te-Sheng Chang; Alexander MacDonald Haynes – Educational Gerontology, 2025
Curricula have historically overlooked non-heteronormative education for elderly populations. The purpose of this study was to assess attitude changes toward same-sex relationships among Taiwanese older adults before and after taking a curriculum focused on the lived experiences of same-sex partners. Seventy-six older adults from Hualien County,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Older Adults, Attitude Change
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Si-Chu Shen; Yan-Hao Feng; Guang-Hui Shen; Cai-Mei Liu; Sheng-Xiong Wu – Educational Gerontology, 2024
In China, the innovative development of education for older people is an important response to the aging population, and an important way to meet the spiritual, cultural, and social needs of older people. Current academic research mainly focuses on the social factors that affect the participation of older people in education and there are few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Personality Traits, Older Adults
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IBIlI, Emin; Ilhanli, Nevruz; ZayIm, Nese; Yardimci, Ahmet – Educational Gerontology, 2023
This study was aimed at determining the factors that affect the intentions of University of the Third Age (UTA) students toward e-learning systems by using Structural Equation Modeling. For this purpose, factors such as Self-Efficacy, Experience, Social Norms, Enjoyment, and Anxiety, suggested as external factors in the General Extended Technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Intention, Influences
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Ko, Helen – Educational Gerontology, 2020
Against the backdrop of an unprecedented increase in the number of older adults in Singapore, the escalating pace of change which necessitates continuous learning, and a dearth of empirical research related to instructional design for older adults, this study sought to fill this gap by investigating the strategies utilized by successful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Education, Adult Educators
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Hachem, Hany; Manninen, Jyri – Educational Gerontology, 2020
The humanist and critical principles of educational gerontology attribute different goals to education in later life. Self-Actualization is the goal of humanist educational gerontology, while empowerment, emancipation, and social change are the goals of critical educational gerontology. Liberal arts education is dominant in later-life learning.…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Educational Principles, Liberal Arts, Adult Learning
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Esra Koca; Doga Baser – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The study aimed to investigate the attitudes and empathy levels of social work students toward the elderly according to some variables and to reveal the relationship between attitudes and empathy. The research population consisted of 899 students. 480 students were included in the sample. The Personal Information Form, the Kogan's Attitude toward…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Social Work, Empathy, Older Adults
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Mauricio Blanco-Molina; Sacramento Pinazo-Hernandis; José M. Tomas – Educational Gerontology, 2025
The aim of this research is to compare a series of subjective indicators of healthy aging. We analyzed two samples of people 60 years or older enrolled in university courses in two public universities, the National University (Costa Rica, N = 206) and the University of Valencia (Spain, N = 857). The subjective indicators of successful aging…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Bekir Güzel – Educational Gerontology, 2025
In today's society, the issues surrounding aging, older adults, and ageism have gained considerable attention due to the rapidly increasing aging population. This study examines attitudes of the university students in Türkiye toward ageism. Employing a meta-analysis approach, the study investigates whether various sociodemographic factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Social Bias, College Students
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Yuxi Wang; Jinhong Yang; Lin Wang; Jiang Liu; Tingting Xin; Lunan Gao; Yuxiu Liu – Educational Gerontology, 2024
With the world's population aging, geriatric care is more important than ever before. However, many studies have shown that nursing students are less likely to choose geriatric nursing as career than other nursing fields. Nursing students play a vital role in the development of geriatric nursing. Thus, this study aimed to explore the current…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Student Motivation, Career Choice, Geriatrics
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Liu, Dawei; Zhang, Liqiu – Educational Gerontology, 2023
Research on acceptance of online self-learning is regularly based on the technology acceptance model (TAM), but less has been discussed on older adults. This article expands TAM by taking living arrangements and gender as moderators after the pandemic. Utilizing a structural equation model based on the partial least squares technique to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses
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Hungwe, Chipo; Mugari, Zvenyika Eckson; Hungwe, Elda – Educational Gerontology, 2023
This paper employs textual analysis to explain how older adults are depicted in children's textbooks at primary school with specific focus on grade 3 level which is the beginning of Junior school at primary level. Because these textbooks are studied throughout the country, this discussion provides a picture of the national situation in so far as…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Illustrations, Textbooks, Elementary School Students
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Calhoun, Denise; Lee, Seung Bok – Educational Gerontology, 2019
As America's older population continues to grow, more individuals are experiencing cognitive decline in the United States. At the same time, we live in an age where technology has increasingly become an integral part of our daily lives. Although numerous studies have examined cognitive functions of older adults from a diverse range of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Computer Use
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Constantino, Rose E.; Reyes, Andrew Thomas; Kregg-Byers, Claudia M.; Braxter, Betty; Scott, Paul Wesley; Cobb, Jordan; Hui, Vivian; Ren, Dianxu; Kameg, Brayden; Cuevas, Pearl Ed G.; Palompon, Daisy R.; Petrie, Jennifer; Palanisamy, Balaji – Educational Gerontology, 2020
The purpose of this study was to assess the HEARTS (Health, Experience of Abuse, Resilience, Technology use, and Safety) of older adults (OAs). More particularly, we aimed to assess three components of the HEARTS (health, experience of abuse, and resilience) of OAs and explore the relationships among health, resilience, the experience of abuse,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Resilience (Psychology), Safety, Aging (Individuals)
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