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Kelleher, Carol H.; Quirk, Daniel A. – Industrial Gerontology, 1974
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Attitudes, Individual Needs, Leisure Time
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Bahr, Rose Therese – Educational Horizons, 1978
The purpose of this article is to identify the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects of aging, as well as to emphasize the role of education as a total life experience that can result in understanding of the unique needs of the aging person. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Age, Educational Objectives, Educational Responsibility, Gerontology
Glickman, Lillian L.; And Others – 1975
This document contains a sourcebook developed as a program planning guide for community colleges and other interested institutions for the planning and implementation of effective educational programs for the elderly. The sourcebook contains the following information: (1) an examination of the changes in the nature of the older adult population…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Guides
Sheldon, Ann Workman – 1981
Providing comprehensive services for the elderly in local communities presents planners and potential users with a complex set of problems. The development of new or expanded service to the elderly was examined within an ecologically informed resource dependency model to assess the effect on service expansion of organizational maintenance factors…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Financial Support, Human Services
Frame, Ron – 1987
To assist persons with developmental disabilities in South Dakota to become more independent, productive, and integrated into the community, the South Dakota Advocacy Project, Inc. implemented the Volunteer Skills Data System (VSDS). As South Dakota is primarily rural, accessibility to services and programs is a particular concern. Community…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Helping Relationship
Segal, Robert M., Ed. – 1978
This document contains the proceedings from the National Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Gerontology, a conference designed to develop guidelines for program development on national, state, and local levels; develop and disseminate a proceedings publication; and provide an interface between professionals working at national, state,…
Descriptors: Adults, Aging (Individuals), Autism, Cerebral Palsy
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Maust, Ann – Community and Junior College Journal, 1973
Considered ways in which community and junior colleges as well as senior citizens might profitably interact with each other. (RK)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Continuing Education Centers, Educational Development, Human Services
Zweibel, Nancy R. – 1984
Research into the decisionmaking process of families faced with investigating alternatives to institutionalizing frail aged members could yield valuable information for service planners and providers. To analyze the extent to which its original service plan remained responsive to the changing needs of the frail elderly service population,…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Decision Making, Family Problems, Human Services
Knee, Ruth; Krueger, Gladys – 1981
This guide is designed for individuals working in community mental health centers or other mental health programs concerned with needs and problems of the elderly. Section One examines the mental health needs of the elderly, and identifies major community social support programs that help the elderly with social and economic needs. Section Two…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Directories, Federal Programs, Individual Needs
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Ashman, Adrian F.; Suttie, Janene – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1995
Implications of an Australian national study on services for older people with intellectual disability include the importance of individual needs in planning recreation and leisure activities, planning future residential placements, and considering medical and health needs as they age. Choice and involvement in decision making for this population…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Human Services
Flanagan, John C. – 1979
The situations and feelings of representative national samples of 50- and 70-year-olds were investigated in order to provide a representative, adequate data base for planning programs and policies that will result in maximum improvement in the quality of life of older Americans at minimum costs to taxpayers. Intensive case studies of 1,000…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitudes, Case Studies, Gerontology
Hinkley, Nancy E. – 1976
Literature on sexuality and aging and Maslow's hierarchy of needs (which include physiological needs, safety and security needs, belongingness needs, esteem needs, and the need for self-actualization) are used in this paper to identify at each level the needs of the aging individual as they derive from his sexuality in order to provide a…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators
Rothberg, Diane, Ed. – 1984
In these addresses and panel and workshop presentations, experts from business, congressional, union, academic, and nonprofit association sectors provide a look at part-time employment issues of concern to workers, employers, and public policy officials. They describe the place of part-time workers in today's labor force; the needs of older…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Career Education, Employed Women
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1983
This conference report consists of the texts of nine papers presented at a conference on the need for nursing education programs to respond to the needs of the elderly for specialized nursing care. Included in the volume are the following reports: "The Aging Society and Nursing Education: A National Perspective," by Daniel J. O'Neal,…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Associate Degrees, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Branscum, S. Y. – 1983
This manual details a program designed to facilitate the self-revitalization of senior citizens at the community level utilizing community resources. Discussed in the first three chapters of the guide are the background and theoretical premise, structure and organization, and the results of the Work Again Project, a senior citizen retraining and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Community Programs, Community Resources, Educational Opportunities
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