INEQUALITIES IN OLDER ADULTS’ LIFELONG LEARNING: HOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS SHAPES PARTICIPATION AND BENEFITS
Shu Yee Chin, Jolin Chua, Nathan Widjaja, Shannon Ang, Rahul Malhotra · 2024
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Shu Chin and co-authors examine who gets to keep learning in old age in a 2024 study from Singapore. Lifelong learning is promoted as a path to active aging, but seniors with less money and schooling may face steeper barriers to join and may gain less when they do.
The team used two survey waves, from 2016 to 2019, covering 2,508 adults aged sixty and above. They modeled who joined job-related and leisure learning by socio-economic status, then tested whether the same course paid off equally in quality of life, correcting for who chooses to enroll. The analysis shows class shapes both the door into learning and the benefit behind it. Fairer program design has to start from that double gap.
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| CREATOR | Shu Yee Chin, Jolin Chua, Nathan Widjaja, Shannon Ang, Rahul Malhotra |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |