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- Title
Retirement preparation education: A comparison of Norway and Taiwan.
- Authors
Chuan-Chiu Chou; Chun-Ching Yang
- Abstract
In recent years, the numbers of elderly and early-retirement people in Taiwan have continued to increase. Corresponding retirement preparation education (or pre-retirement education), however, has remained insufficiently developed. The aim of this study was to compare the origins, development concepts, and actual practices related to retirement preparation in Norway and Taiwan through on-site inspections and interviews. The findings indicate that Taiwan's retirement preparation education is not as established as that of Norway. Even though the demand clearly exists, Taiwan is inexperienced in regard to the relevant development and learning system. Norway, however, starts with learners' demands and strives to establish a holistic personal development model that considers both the physical and mental aspects regarding the elderly in order to achieve an integrated, feasible, and satisfactory system. For an aging society, the authors suggest that besides providing the traditional financial aid, retirement preparation education should be efficiently developed since it will not merely enhance elderly persons' quality of life, but will also utilize the available social resources more fully.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of older people; EARLY retirement; EDUCATION of retirees; LEARNING; MATURATION (Psychology); POPULATION aging; VOCATIONAL guidance; CONTINUING education; ADULT education
- Publication
International Journal of Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
1997-7034
- Publication type
Article