All Older Adults Projects

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1 in 4 leaflets

NIACE has produced a series of leaflets for people experiencing mental health difficulties to help them make choices about taking up learning and choices to make regarding learning.

Continuing Professional Development for Faith Leaders, Workers and Volunteers

Faith Community Development

Maths, ICT and Older Learners

Mental Health and Wellbeing for Older People

Promoting lifelong learning for people aged 50+ years and how this can help maintain and improve mental health and wellbeing in later life.

Later Life Learning and Local Area Agreements

Digital Stories

Financial Capability for Older People

CROW-Centre for Research into the Older Workforce

Population Debate

A growing, ageing and more diverse population has been identified as one of the key factors influencing the long term development of the economy, sustainability and wellbeing in the South West region.  The South West Regional Development Agency and the Regional Employment and Skills Partnership, in association with the Regional Age Management Standing Group, has designed a 'horizon scanning' exercise to stimulate and capture thinking about how, in the context of a significantly ageing population, the South West Region can manage paid and unpaid employment and active ageing.

Intergenerational access to informal learning

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

This research project examined the use of intergenerational learning (including wider family learning) to provide access to informal adult learning.  Commissioned by DIUS, it built on work already completed by NIACE on family learning and on older learners.

1 December 2008 - 30 April 2009

Boosting WBL Provision

This project has now finished. We've left it here for reference.

This project has worked with a range of work based learning (WBL) providers: colleges, private providers, local authority, voluntary and NHS organisations to find ways of increasing the quantity and quality of the provision that is offered to learners with mental health difficulties.

1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010

Informal Adult Learning for older people in care settings

This project arose out of The Learning Revolution white paper, where the Government made a specific commitment to take action to improve informal learning opportunities for older people in a range of care settings – residential home, day care, care in the home, and in supported housing – in England.

1 June 2009 - 31 March 2010

English For Seniors

This project is a Grundtvig international partnership project.  The partnership is made up of 5 English language learning providers based in Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Latvia and England.  The project seeks to share practice and develop guidelines for tutors on effective approaches for teaching/learning the English Language for older learners and includes using ICT based learning materials.

1 August 2010 - 31 July 2012