Ageing in Fiji: How Older Teachers Perceive Ageing and Their Lives
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https://doi.org/10.11634/21679622150481Keywords:
ageing, developing countries, retirement, teachers, FijiAbstract
Worldwide the population is ageing and data concerning how people want to age actively is limited. The paper is a description of an inductive interpretive-descriptive study of how a sample of older retired teachers in Fiji viewed ageing and their lives as older people. The objectives were to determine and describe perceptions of ageing held by a sample of retired teachers. The methodology consisted of responses to an open ended questionnaire similar to a phenomenographic approach and the analysis was interpretive – descriptive. A purposive sample of 30 retired teachers between the ages of 55 and 60 responded to the questionnaire. The results indicate that most of the respondents were positive about lifelong learning and in particular learning new things; that they were involved in a range of post retirement activities for personal and financial reasons; that there were some barriers and facilitators to their activities; that they generally accepted ageing and being older; and that more should be done by Government and other agencies to provide for a better life for older people in Fiji. These results should be considered in future planning for ageing populations in Fiji, the Pacific region and in other developing countries.Downloads
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Lingam, G. I., & Boulton-Lewis, G. M. (2012). Ageing in Fiji: How Older Teachers Perceive Ageing and Their Lives. American Journal of Human Ecology, 1(2), 65–70. https://doi.org/10.11634/21679622150481
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