Perceptions of successful ageing and implications for late-life learning

Perceptions of successful ageing and implications for late-life learning

• Tam, Maureen Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Studies in Continuing Education, 35(3), 281-298, 2013

Sydney, Great Britain

Routledge

2013

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QG Adult, Lifelong & Continuing Education
    • QGD Elder Education
• B Human Behaviour
  • BD Mental Health

Successful Ageing Senior Adults Late-Life Learning Older Learners

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Adult Education

This paper draws upon a small-scale investigation to shed light on the perceptions of successful ageing by a group of senior adults in Hong Kong. It also identifies attributes that are associated with ageing well and examines the extent to which education or learning is perceived as important in the ageing process. To this end, the research has taken on an educational perspective to find out what older people themselves want and need to learn, what motivates them and what poses as barriers to their participation in learning. By making such data available, policy-makers and educational providers alike will be better placed to understand and determine the role of learning in the ageing process and to plan appropriate interventions in support of late-life learning for and by the elderly.
[Copyright of Studies in Continuing Education is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0158037X.2012.746228]

• English

Journal Articles

• 0158037X

• 10.1080/0158037X.2012.746228

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/aec19389

2014-05-29