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Direct linkRuba Selvaraj; Savitha Vadakkanthara Hariharan – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Background: Research on global coherence in neurotypical aging has predominantly focused on different methods of elicitation and their impact on age. The use of structured versus unstructured discourse tasks can have varying effects on global coherence. Comparative studies investigating this effect within Tamil language-speaking populations are…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Discourse Analysis, Adults, Dravidian Languages
Rebecca A. Charlton; Goldie A. McQuaid; Nancy Raitano Lee; Gregory L. Wallace – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Objective: Self-reported memory difficulties are common among older adults, but few studies have examined memory problems among autistic middle-aged and older people. The current study examines self-rated prospective (PM) and retrospective (RM) memory difficulties and their associations with age in middle-aged and older autistic and non-autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Memory, Age Differences, Older Adults
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)
Michael Mucedola – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Data show that centenarian populations mostly consume a whole-food, plant-based diet, live an active lifestyle, and avoid toxins. Many Americans, however, do the opposite and succumb to numerous health-related diseases at a much earlier age. The lesson presented in this article was designed to help the health educator to use this data in their…
Descriptors: Health Education, Aging (Individuals), Quality of Life, Nutrition
Nir Shalev; Sage Boettcher; Anna C. Nobre – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Older adults struggle with tasks requiring selective attention amidst distractions. Experimental observations about age-related decline have relied on visual search designs using static displays. However, natural environments often embed dynamic structures that afford proactive anticipation of task-relevant information. We investigate the capacity…
Descriptors: Adults, Older Adults, Attention, Visual Stimuli
Jesse Q. Sargent; Lauren L. Richmond; Devin M. Kellis; Maverick E. Smith; Jeffrey M. Zacks – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Spatial memory is important for supporting the successful completion of everyday activities and is a particularly vulnerable domain in late life. Grouping items together in memory, or chunking, can improve spatial memory performance. In memory for desktop scale spaces and well-learned large-scale environments, error patterns suggest that…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Aging (Individuals)
Kintz, Stephen; Wright, Heather Harris – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Light verbs are highly frequent and semantically impoverished words. It is currently not known whether light verb production in discourse tasks differs by age or for people with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). Aims: The purpose of the current study was two-fold: (1) to determine whether there is a relationship between age and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Aging (Individuals), Dementia, Vocabulary
Hany 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
Heather Hirst; Jennifer Campbell; Samantha Chamberlin; Ibukun Olagunju; Frank Bird; James K. Luiselli – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Frailty is a health concern for many adults with intellectual disability and should be measured to detect at-risk conditions, monitor disease, plan treatment, and gauge mortality. This descriptive pilot study evaluated measurement consistency (inter-rater agreement) of the Intellectual Disability-Frailty Index Short Form among multiple assessors…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Physical Health, Aging (Individuals)
Mario Figueroa; Sònia Darbra – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: The evidence on the effect of age on the receptive and expressive language skills of individuals with Down syndrome is inconclusive. Recent research highlights the relevance of having tools to detect age-related changes in language skills. Method: Data were collected on 45 adults with Down syndrome. All were assessed with the Peabody…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Aging (Individuals), Adults, Down Syndrome
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
Lee Stadtlander; Amy Sickel – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2024
Aging, an often-neglected aspect of diversity in universities, is an important issue, as the rate of people working who are 75 and older is growing faster than the rate for any other age group. The present sequential explanatory mixed-method study explored 129 older online faculty's attitudes and opinions on work and retirement in an online survey…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Online Courses, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Ljungberg, Malin; Schön, Ulla-Karin – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: The autistic population is growing and ageing and this also applies to the parents. Despite this, research about parental experiences is still relatively scarce. Even though studies show, compared with adults with other disabilities, parents of autistic adolescents and adults report a decrease in well-being and that caregiving is often…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parents, Aging (Individuals), Well Being
Tuulikki Laes – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2023
In this article, I address the contemporary discussion of later-life courses in music education research and how it might perpetuate the discrimination and stereotyping of older adults. Drawing from the sociology of aging, I aim to show that one possible way to tackle the ageist assumptions in music education is to reflect on rethinking,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Stereotypes
