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Lun, Man Wai Alice – Educational Gerontology, 2018
Community college students were involved in conducting a research project entitled "Life Stories of Chinese American Family Caregivers." They recruited Chinese American family caregivers and collected their life stories of providing care to family members of old age. Students were asked to provide reflections on their experience with the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Human Services, Caregivers, Asian Americans
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Choi, Sora; Park, Myonghwa – Educational Gerontology, 2017
People with dementia (PWD) and their family caregivers need an increasing number of diverse health and social services. A multidisciplinary person-centered approach to dementia services is required to meet the complex needs of PWD and their family caregivers. However, educational programs struggle to prepare health and social work students to meet…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Dementia, Research Projects, Experiential Learning
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Hart, Ariel R.; Dillard, Rebecca; Perkins, Molly M.; Vaughan, Camille P.; Kinlaw, Kathy; McKay, J. Lucas; Waldrop-Valverde, Drenna; Hagen, Kimberley; Wincek, Ron C.; Hackney, Madeleine E. – Educational Gerontology, 2017
The DREAMS Team research advocacy training program helps clinical faculty and health students introduce basic clinical research concepts to diverse older adults to galvanize their active involvement in the research process. Older adults are frequently underrepresented in clinical research, due to barriers to participation including distrust,…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Partnerships in Education, Advocacy, Community Education
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Lui, Chi Wai; Warburton, Jeni; Bartlett, Helen – Educational Gerontology, 2009
This paper reports the findings from a study that explored the experiential knowledge of older volunteers who participated in university research projects. Findings suggest that most participants were very positive about their experiences, and they appreciated the opportunity to contribute to research into ageing issues. In terms of areas of…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Volunteers, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals)
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Roberts, William L.; Roberts, Ann E. – Educational Gerontology, 1978
As part of a descriptive study to determine factors in the life-styles of older married couples, questions were asked to determine attitudes about physicians and hospitals. Some evidence was found that responses were related to income, education, and Life-Satisfaction Index-Z scores. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Hospitals, Older Adults, Physicians
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Trent, Curtis; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1979
This study focused upon the question of whether adolescent 4-H Club members' attitudes toward the aged can be changed through participation in specially designed educational experiences. Three types of experiences were provided. Significant positive changes in attitudes occured within each of the experimental groups from pre-test to post-test.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Attitudes, Educational Experience
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Sadowski, Bernard Stanley; Schill, William John – Educational Gerontology, 1979
A group of 100 members of senior citizen centers was interviewed to determine educational implications of affiliation phenomenon. A modified semantic differential technique was used to determine the rank ordering of four affiliation factors. The results showed that members tend to affiliate with groups primarily to gather new information. (Author)
Descriptors: Affiliation Need, Education, Information Seeking, Interpersonal Relationship
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Marcus, Edward E. – Educational Gerontology, 1978
Findings supported previous research indicating that adult educational participation is complex behavior involving more than subject matter interests and motivational orientations, and opened a new line of attack on the problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Research Projects, Student Attitudes
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Wass, Hannelore – Educational Gerontology, 1977
Using 23 items from the Shneidman questionnaire, views of three groups of elderly persons concerning death and dying were examined and compared with views of a national sample of Psychology Today readers surveyed by Shneidman. The elderly group exhibited more traditional points of view than did the PT group. (Author)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Gerontology, Older Adults, Opinions
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Laver, Gary D. – Educational Gerontology, 2006
Involving undergraduate students in cognitive aging research requires extra efforts not associated with graduate assistants. However, if the researcher acknowledges the limited experience of undergraduates in structuring their participation, the rewards are copious for the students and researcher alike. This paper describes undergraduate student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Aging Education, Research Projects, Psychology
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Calhoun, Robert O.; Gounard, Beverly Roberts – Educational Gerontology, 1979
The present study examined the effects of varying meaningfulness of response terms (low, medium, and high) in paired-associate learning of five-or seven-item lists over five trials with both experimenter-paced and self-paced conditions. The subjects were two groups of elderly adults, 61-75 and 76-92. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age, Learning Problems, Older Adults
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Glogow, Eli – Educational Gerontology, 1979
This article examines leadership from the perspective of administrators of homes for the aging. The article points out that most educational institutions have become enamored of linear thinking, quantification, and scientism. On the other hand, intuition, feelings and sesitivity -- the essence of human relations training -- have tended to become…
Descriptors: Administrators, Gerontology, Human Relations Programs, Leadership
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Becker, Francoise; Zarit, Steven H. – Educational Gerontology, 1978
A program of peer counselor training was conducted to evaluate the acquisition of counseling skills by older volunteers. Results indicate that the trained groups changed significantly compared to controls on two of the three core dimensions (empathy and warmth) and had scores on all three scales above the minimum necessary for effective…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Educational Programs, Helping Relationship, Older Adults
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Okun, Morris A.; Siegler, Ilene C. – Educational Gerontology, 1977
Younger (N=31) and older (N=21) men participated in a bogus convergent-thinking task in which they rated their effort expenditure after experiencing varying degrees of success. As predicted, results indicated younger, but not older men perceived they tried harder when they succeeded relative to when they failed. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Gerontology, Males
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Nahemow, Lucille; Dellert, Ann; Eisenhandler, Susan A.; Freed, Arlene; Klein, Waldo; McGuiness, Anne; Raisz, Helen; Wolf, Mary Alice – Educational Gerontology, 1999
The Consortium for Gerontology Education in Long-Term Care was designed to share resources among care providers and educational institutions, collaborate on research, and provide training in field methods. Integrating the work of students, faculty, and health-care providers posed challenges requiring trust, communication, and cooperation. (SK)
Descriptors: Consortia, Gerontology, Higher Education, Long Term Care
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