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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Senior Community"”.
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Baby Boomer Living: Designing a Modern Continuing Care Retirement Community
… the Baby Boomer cohort is vastly changing the senior housing landscape. As the housing market gradually improves and the development of senior housing chases the increasing demand, Baby Boomers are a highly selective cohort with more buying and spending power than their predecessors, are …
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ALCOHOL USE AND THE OLDER ADULT: ADDRESSING OLDER ADULTS’ PERCEPTIONS
… surveyed through questionnaires completed at senior community centers within San Bernardino County. This was a mixed method design that used qualitative and quantitative analysis for the purpose of exploring the most frequently reported reasons for why older adults use alcohol. The main …
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Implementing Multifactorial Education Modules with Older Adults: Individualized and Interactive Fall Prevention Education
<p>Falls are a significant concern for community-dwelling older adults (OAs), with one in four OAs reporting a fall every year. Occupational therapy students collaborated with first responders of the Novato Fire District to identify gaps in fall prevention community outreach programs and found that …
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Resilience and Protective Factors in Older Adults
… ages 62 and higher were recruited from senior community programs and personal contacts. Four self-report questionnaires were completed by the participants in this exploratory, cross-sectional, quantitative design. SPSS was used for a descriptive and multivariate analyses to investigate …
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BULLYING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN RETIREMENT HOMES AN UNKNOWN EPIDEMIC
… explored the type of bullying that occurs in the community. Senior community centers were the significant domains in which to research bullying among older adults because it involved immersion of the researcher into an environment of older adults who knew one another and have witnessed or have …
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Unveiling Career Aspirations: The Role of Human, Social, and Cultural Capital Among California Community College Classified Staff
<p>California community colleges serve as a critical access point to higher education for diverse student populations, but the career paths of the classified staff who support the colleges remain largely understudied. The professional development of classified staff and their motivation for …
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Community College President's Health Habits: A Prescription for Job Performance in Rural Illinois
… the experts are predicting a mass exodus of senior community college leaders, including presidents. News reports have indicated that some community college presidents have retired due to health problems. For whatever reason, it will cost the institutions to replace the presidents. The …
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Making medication adherence decisions: Stories from older adults taking medications for congestive heart failure
… take or not to take medications for CHF in the community setting. Using purposive and snowball sampling, research flyers were placed in two churches, two senior community centers, three senior living communities, one indigent care clinic, and one cardiology office. The personal narratives of 11 …
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A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WORKING WITH THE ARTS AND THE AGING
… is a valuable way to discover contributions seniors are still making within their communities and the arts world at large. As I confront my own intrigue of aging, I am drawn not only to elders in my immediate family, but to elders in my community and ultimately back to myself. Through this …
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A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WORKING WITH THE ARTS AND THE AGING
… is a valuable way to discover contributions seniors are still making within their communities and the arts world at large. As I confront my own intrigue of aging, I am drawn not only to elders in my immediate family, but to elders in my community and ultimately back to myself. Through this …
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An Exploration Of Emotional Intelligence And Its Relationship To Higher Education Effective Leadership Practices Of Leaders In A Community College Environment
… EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP PRACTICES OF LEADERS IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENVIRONMENT </p> <p>By</p> <p>VICKI A. GOLDEN</p> <p>November, 2014</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Ingrid Guerra-Lopez</p> <p>Major: Performance Improvement</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>Emotional intelligence (EI) has been shown …