Older and getting wiser ; When they suddenly find themselves jobless or just want something new, adults are going back to collegeAnne Neville
The author of a new guide for adult college students offers advice on how to successfully earn a degree at any age — and says one Washington two-year public college ranks among the best in the nation for serving adults going back to school. Go to any bookstore or libr...
A quantitative model is required to measure information comprehended during reading. Abstract When a word is read in a text, the aspects of its meanings that are encoded should be those relevant to the text and not those that are irrelevant. We tested whether older adults, college students, an...
Accordingly, the aim of this participant preference feasibility study was to explore older adults’ participation in a four-month self-managed fall prevention exercise intervention, comparing a digital exercise programme (DP) and a paper booklet (PB). We specifically aimed to describe the particip...
autistic older adults at INSAR this year," Bishop said. "We're trying to make gains, but it's not something that a single research group can do. It requires collaboration internationally to be able to find out the things that we need to know to build high-quality interventions and ...
For instance, in a cross-sectional study in European countries, improving walkability decreased loneliness in older adults with depression17, whereas older people in Japan living in neighborhoods with good walkability reported low prevalence of knee and lower-back pain18. Walkability can be measured ...
13 Gait speed has been recommended as a potentially useful clinical indicator of well-being among the older adults.14 The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association of gait speed with survival in older adults and to determine the degree to which gait speed explains variability in ...
adults' perceptions of older adults and long term care facilities in general. The contact was supposed to be informal, meaning that the involved care facilities were instructed that participants were not to be regarded as additional staff during the summer months. Rather, the participants were to ...
In the BELL trial, 28 insufficiently active older adults (15 women, 13 men, 59–79 years) completed six weeks of face-to-face group training, and six weeks of home-based training. In-depth semi-structured interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and inductively coded, with themes construc...
Background The ageing population presents a substantial challenge to conventional care services for older adults in China. College students' voluntary service constitutes an integral component of youth volunteerism, and investigating their continuing willingness to engage in volunteer services to benefit older...