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VRCHIVE: Experiences Conducting an Online Workshop Teaching Intergenerational Participants to Create Virtual Reality Films about Their Lives during the COVID Pandemic
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Appel, Lora; Lewis, Samantha; Kisonas, Erika; Recknagel, Jennifer – Educational Gerontology, 2022
The VRCHIVE workshop was a first-of-its-kind exploratory pilot initiative to examine the feasibility of running a remote, intergenerational Virtual Reality (VR) storytelling workshop through the Toronto Public Library. The workshop took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted a need to develop solutions to address the digital…
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Intergenerational Programs, Workshops, Public Libraries
Keep Your Brain Fit! A Psychoeducational Training Program for Healthy Cognitive Aging: A Feasibility Study
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Reijnders, Jennifer; van Heugten, Caroline; van Boxtel, Martin – Educational Gerontology, 2015
A psychoeducational face-to-face training program (Keep Your Brain Fit!) was developed to support the working population in coping with age-related cognitive changes and taking proactive preventive measures to maintain cognitive health. A feasibility study was conducted to test the training program presented in a workshop format. Participants…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Health Promotion, Brain, Gerontology
Three Strategies for Delivering Continuing Medical Education in Geriatrics to General Practitioners
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Rikkert, Marcel G. M.; Rigaud, Anne-Sophie – Educational Gerontology, 2004
General practitioners (GPs) need advanced skills in geriatric assessment to be competent to treat the increasing number of elderly patients. Continuing medical education in geriatrics for GPs is heterogeneous, and not assessed for effectiveness. In this study we compared the educational effects of three geriatric post-graduate training methods on…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Medical Education
Three Strategies for Delivering Continuing Medical Education in Geriatrics to General Practitioners
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Rikkert, Marcel G. M.; Rigaud, Anne-Sophie – Educational Gerontology, 2004
General practitioners (GPs) need advanced skills in geriatric assessment to be competent to treat the increasing number of elderly patients. Continuing medical education in geriatrics for GPs is heterogeneous, and not assessed for effectiveness. In this study we compared the educational effects of three geriatric post-graduate training methods on…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Training Methods
Consumer Education for the Rural Elderly.
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Ater, E. Carolyn; Baugh, Carroll W. – Educational Gerontology, 1981
Reviews problems of the elderly consumer and describes efforts to provide consumer education to rural elderly individuals through two series of one-day workshops. Evaluations indicated that consumer education can be effectively provided to rural elderly with a high degree of perceived usefulness and sharing of information. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Gerontology, Interest Inventories, Money Management
Overcoming Learned Helplessness in Elderly Clients: Skills Training for Service Providers.
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Priddy, J. Michael; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1982
Relates the theory of learned helplessness to the losses of aging, and describes a brief experiential training program for service providers, teaching interpersonal skills useful in working with the depressed elderly. Focuses on reducing helplessness by allowing the elderly to have impact within the counseling interaction. (RC)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Depression (Psychology)