The Positively Aging® teaching materials improve middle school students' images of older people

Gerontologist

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 322-332

  Lichtenstein, Michael J ^a,c   Pruski, Linda A ^a   Marshall, Carolyn E ^a   Blalock, Cheryl L ^a   Murphy, Douglas L ^b   Plaetke, Rosemarie ^d   Lee, Shuko ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b School of Allied Health   (United States)

^c Divisions of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (MAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Controlled trial; Education; Middle school

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CURRICULUM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH SCHOOL; PERCEPTION; TEACHING;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); STEREOTYPING; TEXAS;

EID: 0034743927     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/41.3.322     Document Type: Article

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