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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"senior center"”.

  1. Grace Street Senior Center

    Brockett, Virginia2014

    … social activity for seniors can increase their well being and by extension their physicalhealth. The Grace Street Senior Center was designed to accommodate a variety of social activities for the center's members as well as house the center's administration. The member …

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  2. Relationships between selected meanings of leisure, vounteering, and work of senior center program participants

    Smith, Christen G.Texas Woman's University1985

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  3. Tensions in Welcoming LGBT Older Adults: Discourses of Legitimization and Silence in a Senior Center

    McCoy, Megan C

    … within the specific context of community-based senior centers. My study addressed the research question: how does the discourse of senior centers create welcoming environments, or alternately construct silences, for LGBT older adults? Through an integrated conceptual framework engaging the …

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  4. The Relationship of Self-Perceived Educational Needs and Activities of Older Adults to Selected Senior Center Programs: A Community Study

    Ralston, Penny AnnUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913581.pdf: 7741775 bytes, checksum: c989e7d04a6fb7a44247fdece984acac (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978

    uiuc Repository record

  5. A Study of the Effects of Pet Ownership on Mental Health among Community-Dwelling Senior Citizens in Northeast Tennessee.

    Southerland, E. Marie2007

    … psychological health among community-dwelling senior citizens and evaluated the impact of the placement of an aquarium into a regional senior center. General health, depression, social support, pet attitudes, pet attachment, pet relationships, and attitudes about the aquarium were assessed …

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  6. Designing cities for the elderly

    Lee, David, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology2007

    … its elderly citizens. Among the many challenges seniors face in Brookline are barriers to mobility, need for activity and company, threats to physical safety, and limited range of travel. Through careful planning and design, local governments can make physical improvements to the public …

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  7. Barriers to Communication in Healthcare: Perceptions of the Rural Elderly

    Arachikavitz, Nicole

    … at least 65 years of age and must have visited a senior center in the Barren River Area Development District on the date of interviews (n=59). The data was analyzed using frequencies and central tendencies with SPSS. The study satisfied the purpose of expanding and updating what is known about the …

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  8. Initiatives in the Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University

    Li, Qian2009

    … Chinese New Year Program for Cobb County Senior Center and the exhibition of photos of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that allowed me to practice what I have learned from the courses of Public Administration. In terms of the learning objectives of my internship, I have employed the …

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  9. Muscle Strength and Body Cell Mass in Postmenopausal Women

    McMahon, Callie GriggsVirginia Tech2001

    … was conducted twice a week for 10 weeks at the Senior Center in Blacksburg, VA. Participants performed seven different exercises incorporating upper body and lower body muscle groups. The women performed one set of 8-12 repetitions at an intensity of 80% of one repetition maximum (1 RM) the …

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