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Learning and Active Aging

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Pages 271-282 | Published online: 16 Aug 2006
 

ABSTRACT

Learning is an important aspect of aging productively. This paper describes results from 2645 respondents (aged from 50 to 74 + years) to a 165-variable postal survey in Australia. The focus is on learning and its relation to work; social, spiritual, and emotional status; health; vision; home; life events; and demographic details. Clustering analysis showed that learning and health were most important. The relationship between variables was then investigated using the Gamma test by age, and factor and regression analyses. Of the respondents, 6% discussed learning in the open statement on the questionnaire. Implications are drawn from the results for learning.

This paper is presented on behalf of the Triple A (Australian Active Aging) Project which is being conducted by a group across five faculties at Queensland University of Technology and includes L. Buys, J. Lovie-Kitchin, G. M. Boulton-Lewis, M. Courtney, H. Edwards, D. Anderson, R. Nayak, and M. T. Zlobicki. All these people were involved in developing the survey. We acknowledge the assistance of R. Nayak and R. Bridgstock in data analysis.

Notes

Note: Responses are arranged in order of the number of mentions.

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