This work examines the important role of learning in maintaining the health, quality of life, and longevity of older adults, and in providing opportunities for them to take on new roles in society. Based on extensive interviews with elderlearners and with learning services providers across the country, Elderlearning includes the results of the first comprehensive survey on the topic of adult learning in men and women over age 55. The authors provide key data on the sources, topics, and extent of the current learning activities of older adults, as well as on their preferred learning modes.
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Elderlearning is a valuable compendium of findings drawn from original research and a review of literature, as well as a treatise on the social and personal significance of learning as an antidote to the negative aspects of age....The sheer volume of demographic statistics presented is timely and valuable, strengthening the basis for long-term trends and implications in the field....The authors of Elderlearning are to be applauded for making the educational establishment aware that programs for older adults are going to be an important feature of higher education and that, demographics aside, there are personal and societal arguments favoring lifelong learning. Elderlearning will be a valuable aid to anyone involved in developing or teaching programs designed to meet the needs of older adults, as well as to elderlearners themselves. (Continuing Higher Education Review )
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LOIS LAMDIN is a writer and consultant in adult education, prior learning assessment, and workforce training.
MARY FUGATE is a private consultant in higher education and adult program development.
MARY FUGATE is a private consultant in higher education and adult program development.
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In the waning years of the twentieth century, we are witnessing what may be the most profound change in human development in history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
older adult learning, informal learners, current older generation, high learners, older learners, crystallized intelligence, scoring group Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Elderlearning Survey, Third Agers, Age Age, Robert Butler, Columbia University Press, San Francisco, United States, Abraham Monk, North Carolina, Bureau of the Census, Columbia Retirement Handbook, Maggie Kuhn, Walter Bortz, Civil War, League of Women Voters, Modern Maturity, Patricia Cross, Peter Laslett, Retirement Institutes, Warner Schaie, Allen Tough, Black America, Columbia Book of Retirement, Fresh Map of Life New!
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In the waning years of the twentieth century, we are witnessing what may be the most profound change in human development in history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
older adult learning, informal learners, current older generation, high learners, older learners, crystallized intelligence, scoring group Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Elderlearning Survey, Third Agers, Age Age, Robert Butler, Columbia University Press, San Francisco, United States, Abraham Monk, North Carolina, Bureau of the Census, Columbia Retirement Handbook, Maggie Kuhn, Walter Bortz, Civil War, League of Women Voters, Modern Maturity, Patricia Cross, Peter Laslett, Retirement Institutes, Warner Schaie, Allen Tough, Black America, Columbia Book of Retirement, Fresh Map of Life New!
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- The Columbia Retirement Handbook by Abraham Monk on 6 pages
- Aging and Cognition: Mental Processes, Self-Awareness and Interventions (Advances in Psychology) by Eugene A. Lovelace on 4 pages
- Adults as Learners: Increasing Participation and Facilitating Learning (The Jossey-Bass series in higher education) by K. Patricia Cross on 4 pages
- A Fresh Map of Life: The Emergence of the Third Age by Peter Laslett on 4 pages
- Aging in Society: Selected Reviews of Recent Research by Matilda White Riley on page 87, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Learning Later, Living Greater: The Secret for Making the Most of Your After 50 Years (Culture Tools) by Nancy Merz Nordstrom in Back Matter
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