Chapter 10: Leasure, Recreation, and Services Flashcards
Contractors
People who have stopped at least one outdoor activity in the past year and have not learned any new activity since age 65, in keeping with the disengagement theory of aging
Expanders
People who have not stopped any activities in the past year and have added at least one new outdoor activity since age 65, in keeping with the lifespan development theory of aging
Self-efficiency
What people believe they can do; people with a strong sense of efficiency take on more challenging tasks and put out more effect
Active leisure lifestyle
A type of lifestyle that directly benefits health and helps to buffer the influence of life events and illness by regular participation in physical activities
Gero-transcendence
In later life, the self begins to expand its boundaries and reflect on the meaning of human life
Institutes for Learning in Retirement (ILRs) or Lifelong Learning Institutes (LLIs)
Programs that offer people a variety of educational formats from lectures, to seminars, to travel courses, with topics usually decided on by the group
Road Scholar
(Previously Elderhostel) A non-profit company that promotes lifelong learning by organizing educational and cultural tours aimed at people in their 50s and older (originally based on a combination of university life and the European concept of hostelling)
Weak social ties
These differ from the intimacy of family and friendship ties; weak social ties link people from diverse backgrounds and expose a person to new views and opinions
Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO)
A federal government program that recruits volunteers, many of whom are retired executives, to serve as advisers and mentors in underdeveloped countries or with Indigenous groups in Canada
Structural lag
A mismatch between changes in the aging process (e.g better health for older people, more active lifestyles) and the roles and places in the social structure that can meet the needs of this new older person
