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Direct linkRicheson, Nancy E.; Boyne, Sarah; Brady, E. Michael – Educational Gerontology, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 13-week adult education class for older adults with early-stage dementia titled Health Promotion for the Mind, Body, and Spirit. The mixed method research design (N = 14) used a quasiexperimental one-group pretest/posttest and the qualitative methods of focus group and phone interview with…
Descriptors: Dementia, Adult Education, Health Promotion, Depression (Psychology)
Rosel, Natalie – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2003
Research on aging in place appropriately emphasizes the value of familiar surroundings. The current study contributes an exploration of elders' personal knowledge of where and with whom they are aging in place, knowledge actively accumulated from a lifetime spent in the same area. Structured conversations over a four-month period with 10 elders…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Aging (Individuals), Personal Narratives, Social Psychology
Castle, Nicholas G. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study examined whether providing outcomes information to 120 nursing homes facilitated improvements in quality over a 12-month period, as compared with 1,171 facilities not receiving this information. The outcomes information provided consisted of a report mailed to administrators that examined six measures of care quality. These…
Descriptors: Intervention, Nursing Homes, Least Squares Statistics, Outcomes of Treatment
