Experimental studies on learning show that, although the elderly learn more slowly than the young, they can acquire new material and can remember it as well as the young.
The idyllic setting for Agatha Christie's first Miss Marple novel, 1930's The Murder at the Vicarage, St Mary Mead was where the elderly spinster learned her sleuthing trade.
Only one of the five participants (four young adults, one elderly) who learned to detect a specifying variable in the course of the experiment still used it in the retention test.
What could an elderly person learn from watching this film?
"Elderly couples learn to tango at night by the illuminated Ming-era city walls," Mr. Khanna observes of Beijing.
Bak has done a small study with elderly people learning Gaelic in Scotland and seen significant benefits after just one week.
It's got a real black-and-white, silent-film retro appeal as it tells the story of an elderly woman learning to cope alone when her identical twin unexpectedly dies.
But he explained that the only way for Republicans to get the kind of reforms they want, which will enable the rich to hold on to their wealth and the poor and the elderly to learn the art of self-reliance, is to take back the Senate and the presidency in 2012.
Barnaby, the black sheep former delinquent in "A Patchwork Planet," needs to know if people can change: "Did they have to settle for just being who they were forever?" From his heavy-lifting Rent-a-Back work among the elderly, he learns this about couples: "It made no difference whether they'd married the right person.
"At a time when they are least adaptable and most vulnerable to stress and are entering perhaps the most difficult period of their lives, the elderly must learn new methods of relating and coping" because of the physical and mental changes described in our earlier post.
It was easy for the elderly to learn, and required a relatively low level of mobility to practice.
