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Experiential learning for undergraduates — a simulation about functional change and aging
Author(s)	Monika Deppen Wood
Journal title	Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol 23, no 2, 2002
Pages	pp 37-48
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Students ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Ageing process ; Self care capacity ; Teaching methods ; Universities ; United States of America.
Annotation	Undergraduates have difficulty understanding the normal sensory losses and changes in functional status experienced by virtually all older adults. To overcome this experiential problem, a classroom assignment, the ageing simulation exercise, was developed to engage students as active participants in their learning of what it geniunely means to "become older". Students are obliged to experience first-hand some of the many aches and pains, as well as sensory losses commonly associated with the ageing process. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030516223 A
Classmark	XN: TOB: BG: CA: VB: V5: 7T
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