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Learning in the fourth age
— [cover title]: Fourth age learning report | | Author(s) | Jim Soulsby |
| Corporate Author | National Institute of Adult Continuing Education - NIACE; Department for Education and Employment - DfEE |
| Publisher | DfEE, London, 2000 |
| Pages | 52 pp |
| Source | Copies obtainable from: dfee@prologistics.co.uk or, tel: 0845 60 222 60 |
| Keywords | Adult Education ; Nursing homes ; Care homes ; Sheltered housing ; Social Services Departments. |
| Annotation | The fourth age is considered to be the time when because of increasing frailty or illness, older people can no longer maintain the lifestyle they had in the third age, and need to rely on others for some or all aspects of their care. However, those in the fourth age are still capable of personal development. The project on which this report is based comprised a literature review and small scale questionnaire, complemented by visits to: Extra Care Housing, West Midlands; Nightingale Lane, Balham (residential, nursing care, sheltered housing and day care for Jewish Elders); Lancashire Social Services; the National Association for Providers of Activities for Older People (NAPA), Brighton Social Services, and the Wandsworth Housebound Learning Scheme. The report examines: curriculum; funding; collaboration in planning, delivering and funding; sectoral views; and issues such as ethnicity, gender, dementia, and the needs of carers. While findings pointed to benefits of later life learning activities, the study revealed inconsistency of provision, with too many agencies involved and lacking co-ordination. Recommendations are made to the Government and the Inter-Ministerial Group on Ageing (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001122222 B |
| Classmark | GP: LHB: KW: KLA: PF |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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