READING HABITS OF ELDERLY ADULTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTION
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Gerontology
- Vol. 13 (6) , 521-532
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0360127870130608
Abstract
Elderly adults, 18 male and 31 female, with a mean age of 67 years, participated in a study of their reading habits. Subjects responded to the Survey of Elderly Reading Attitudes instrument. Findings indicated that similarities and differences did occur among the reading habits of elderly adults. For example, most subjects felt that they had time to read; significantly more married than single subjects reported that they invest their funds in magazines and daily newspapers and proportionally more female than male subjects reported that they read advertisements without difficulty.Keywords
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