The Research of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States

• Main Authors: Wen-Chi Tsai, 蔡文綺
• Other Authors: Fu-Shuen Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24664354429228778276

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 高齡者教育所 === 94 === ABSTRACT The theme of the research is to explore University-Linked Retirement Communities (ULRCs) in the United States. The documentary analysis method is mainly adopted. The documents had been collected from 1982 to May of 2006 included the relative documents, books, reports, editorials, and websites in University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States. By reading and arranging them, the researcher tried to discuss the origin, the development, model, role, relationship, and learning activities of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States. After the discussion of the above, the researcher generalized the features from it and provided some recommendations for the elders’ education in Taiwan. The research about University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States can generalize into fourteen features as below: 1.Linking model conformity university and retirement communities ; 2.To pour vigor into retirement communities; 3.Enhancing the image and prestige of retirement communities; 4.To promote retirement communities multiplication development; 5.Linking model combine age-segregation with age-integration; 6.Develops the new resources for the university; 7.Providing the university to create the new way of university duty and mission; 8.Linking model strengthening the relation of school and communities, and it can remove the misunderstanding between the school and society; 9.To increase study opportunity for older people; 10.To create a multi-generation environment for the older people; 11.To promote the elders mental health, and satisfies the elders influence and the contribution demand; 12.Make the elders keep the contact with their old school, and strengthening older people link with local school; 13.Satisfying the demand of elder aging in the place; 14.To provide the elders the new development approach after retirement. Besides, the researcher analyzed the implement of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States, then pointed out the dilemma and blind spots of it, and finally provided the elders’ educational institutes with four aspects recommendations as following: 1.The government lacks the norms of support and legislation of ULRCs; 2.Some universities lack for linking common view to what has been handled the university and retirement communities insufficiently; 3.It is difficult to finance for building up retirement communities; 4.The ULRCs is restricted by the entrance condition to cause its service object is limited; 5.The university and retirement communities' leader lack for common view; 6.The government lacks for setting the mechanism of rewards and comments. At last, the research of University-Linked Retirement Communities in the United States provides our country four aspects recommendations as below: I.ULRCs to government's enlightenment 1.The government should make great efforts to develop the new retirement idea of caring link learning; 2.Encouraging the university to held the elders educational activities on the policy; 3.Encouraging older living house and retirement community to held learning activities by themselves, and increasing the elder learning opportunities. II.ULRCs to university/college's enlightenment 1.The higher educational institution opens for the elder; 2.The combination of universities/colleges and retirement communities open the new development opportunity for the university; 3.The universities/colleges should establish senior learning center; 4.The universities/colleges should be devoted to strengthening the relationship among the alumni is beneficial to opening up resources; 5.The universities/colleges should strengthen the common view in school to face the coming of aging population society and adopt in accordance to strategy; 6.To enhance the elders correlation domain research and cultivate professional personnel. III.ULRCs to Retirement Communities’ enlightenment 1.To adjust the management of the retirement communities, and combine care with learn. 2.The retirement communities should offer a variety of service to meets more demands of the elder. 3.The development of retirement communities should seek to establish the linking relationship with the university. 4.The retirement communities should combine the resources of social welfare, medical treatment and education system. 5.The retirement communities set up the unit and professional personnel to manage elder learning activities. IV.ULRCs to the elders’ enlightenment 1.To choose the retirement communities which have linked relationship with the universities/colleges to be a raising place. 2.The elders participate in learning activities contribute to promote physical and mental healthy. 3.The elders establish self-service social group to develop the learning activity voluntarily and provides the learning opportunities. 4.The elders should participate in generation activities to look for the life meaning.