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Stage Posts
— a new approach to life planning? | | Author(s) | Jim Soulsby |
| Journal title | ReView, vol 4, issue 1, June 2004 |
| Publisher | Pre-Retirement Association, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 4-7 |
| Source | http://www.pra.uk.com |
| Keywords | Adult Education ; Preparation [retirement] ; Advisory services [elderly] ; Coordination ; Middle aged. |
| Annotation | People are being encouraged to stay in work rather than retire. The "mid-life crisis" could be re-emerging, and with it, a need to re-motivate older workers to take stock and revise their life planning. Pre-retirement education needs to arrive earlier as mid-life planning. The author also asks how older age policy initiatives can be encouraged to work together, recognising the learning elements within their activities. One example is the Single Assessment Process (SAP), involving health and social services working together. However, the care needs considered in SAP are quite basic, but could be extended such that education could be part of a care package. The author's central tenet is that "age" is not the factor, rather it is the "stage" or phase of life one has reached. To this end, he outlines work at the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education (NIACE): Older & Bolder and the "Curriculum for Later Life"; and 55 Alive, aimed at encouraging government to join up actions more effectively to reach people around that age. 55 Alive has led to a proposed integrated educational / guidance service, Stage Posts, which would help users make sense of the educational and training opportunities available to them. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040809212 A |
| Classmark | GP: GA: IT: QAJ: SE |
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