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Re-creating selves: why women over 60 seek degrees.(IN HER OWN WORDS)
Three significant events are coming together in these early years of the 21st century:
* the fast-approaching "retirement" age of the boomers
* the expectation of perhaps 30 active post-retirement years for healthy middle-aged adults
* the globalization of the information age
We know that old age is another normal developmental stage of life. With the ever-increasing speed at which knowledge and complex technology advances, elders must learn to cope with technology's changes and the obsolescence of much of what they learned.
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For those mid-life and older adults who choose to return to school for a degree, it's often a life-changing decision bringing unexpected consequences. How many of them go on unexpectedly to enrich their communities and create new lives for themselves? Answers to these questions become increasingly important as the first wave of baby-boomers enters their sixth decade.
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...headed by pediatrician Robert S. Byrd, also found that older students were more likely to attend a school with a large proportion...smoker, Byrd's team found. On self-rating forms, older students were more likely to rank their academic performance as poor...
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