Older people should play a more active role in learning research
Although increasing attention is being paid on participatory research methods, they still remain underused in research addressing older people’s learning, according to a new scoping review conducted at the University of Eastern Finland. The study examined the various roles in which older people participate in learning research. The researchers analysed empirical studies on older people’s learning and examined whether older people participated in them as subjects, informants or partners, or a combination of these roles. In only five of the 2,253 articles analysed, older people did not have