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Download full textMonica-Andreea Popescu – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2023
The aging process involves numerous changes, on a physical, social and family level, which requires the presence of necessary adaptive strategies for maintaining a healthy emotional level and an optimum well-being. Numerous theories have focused on the relation between the coping strategies and psychological well-being on elderly people, which can…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Well Being, Coping, Aging (Individuals)
Direct linkHany Hachem – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2025
Decades of governmental neglect mark the socio-political realities of older people in Lebanon. They endure poverty, illiteracy, ageism, exclusion from healthcare and social security, and are absent from public spaces. Against the backdrop of these realities and Lebanon's ageing population, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs, in collaboration…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals)
Míriam Rodríguez-Monforte; Carles Fernández-Jané; Marietta Bracha; Adrianna Bartoszewska; Mariusz Kozakiewicz; Mariel Leclerc; Endrit Nimani; Pauliina Soanvaara; Sari Jarvinen; Meike Van Sherpenseel; Miriam van der Velde; António Alves-Lopes; Marietta Handgraaf; Christian Grüneberg; Elena Carrillo-Alvarez – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
The promotion of healthy aging has become a priority in most parts of the world and should be promoted at all ages. However, the baseline training of health and social professionals is currently not adequately tailored to these challenges. This paper reports the results of a Delphi study conducted to reach expert agreement about health and social…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Allied Health Personnel, Job Skills, Competence
Hsiao-Mei Hu – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
Maintaining the abilities and utilizing, even developing the potential of older adults is currently one of the important issues in an aged society, and participation in education is an important method to maintain and develop the abilities of older adults. Exploring the factors that discourage older adults from participating in learning activities…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Attitudes, Participation, Adult Education
Fabienne Gfeller; Tania Zittoun – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Moving in older age is a critical experience in the person's life trajectory as it may require an important reorganization of their relation to the social and material environment. In order to better understand this experience, we propose to address it drawing on the concepts of rupture and transition as developed in the frame of sociocultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Housing, Relocation
Susanna Nordin; Jodi Sturge; Louise Meijering; Marie Elf – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
The use of codesign methods is becoming increasingly common practice to involve and engage research participants in health research. Through codesign, end-users and stakeholders can contribute their own perspectives and experiences to solve a common problem. This article describes how a 5-day codesign sprint can be used to find solutions to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Case Studies
Tal Araten-Bergman; Christine Bigby – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2024
Background: This study explores the perceptions of supported accommodation staff and their managers of the support needs of residents ageing with intellectual disabilities, and their experiences of adjusting services for this group in the context of individualised funding. Method: Qualitative interviews were conducted with 21 staff working in…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Intellectual Disability, Group Homes, Caregiver Attitudes
Shu, Jack – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article reports on an oral history theatre project completed by a Hong Kong professional theatre company which involved more than 200 elders who participated as devising actors in two stage performances, with school students and the wider public as audiences. The study found that older participants in the project were much satisfied with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral History, Drama, Older Adults
Lin, Shu-Yuan; Tseng, Hui-Chen – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The purpose of this study was to investigate short-term changes of frailty in adults and identify predictors of frailty and disability changes between baseline and the follow-up. A cohort study was conducted in 85 adults with intellectual disability (ID) in southern Taiwan. Variables of frailty phenotype, Barthel Index, fall, comorbidity, and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Adults, Intellectual Disability, Predictor Variables
Annabeth P. Groenman; Carolien Torenvliet; Tulsi A. Radhoe; Joost A. Agelink van Rentergem; Wikke van der Putten; Mareike Altgassen; Hilde M. Geurts – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Prospective memory helps us to remember to perform tasks in the future. Prospective memory can be either time or event based. The goal of this study was to determine time- and event-based prospective memory in autistic adults across the life span. Autistic (n = 82) and non-autistic (n = 111) adults, aged between 30 and 86 years, performed the…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Memory, Age
Madalina-Ioana Ratiu – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2023
In contemporary society, the problem of population aging and, related to it, the problem of human resources aging is raised more and more frequently. As documented by many researchers, it has been found that the aging changes occur at both physiological and psychosocial levels and affect each employee differently. When it comes to the educational…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Older Workers
Francesco Innocenti; Math J. J. M. Candel; Frans E. S. Tan; Gerard J. P. van Breukelen – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
Normative studies are needed to obtain norms for comparing individuals with the reference population on relevant clinical or educational measures. Norms can be obtained in an efficient way by regressing the test score on relevant predictors, such as age and sex. When several measures are normed with the same sample, a multivariate regression-based…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Multivariate Analysis, Error of Measurement, Regression (Statistics)
Carmen Requena; Estela González-González – Educational Gerontology, 2024
The university's social commitment takes the form of educational activities that bring the academic and social worlds closer together. Furthermore, the university has the responsibility and commitment to identify the needs felt by society and address them. This research aimed to determine the impact of an experiential learning methodology for…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Aging (Individuals), Social Bias
Anna Garnett; Ruheena Sangrar; Kelsey Harvey; Rachel Weldrick; Stephanie Hatzifilalithis; Micheal Kalu; Emily C. Dunford; Audrey Patocs; Tara Kajaks – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
With global increases in the population of older adults, there is a critical need for interdisciplinary collaboration to address the complexities of aging. Interdisciplinary research is well suited to facilitate trainee development; this venue provides opportunities for engagement in collaborative projects and networks, positioning trainees to…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Aging (Individuals), Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Education
Charlotte Löfqvist; Maria Haak; Catharina Melander; Gudrun Edgren; Søren S. B. Bengtsen; Susanne Iwarsson – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
The aim is to describe the development of a novel interdisciplinary graduate school, using the Swedish National Graduate School for Competitive Science on Ageing and Health (SWEAH) as a case example. We explore doctoral students' perceptions of being part of SWEAH and provide implications for practice. Written self-reports reflecting 78 students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graduate Study
