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Article: Leisure and the elderly.
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- Parks & Recreation
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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Recognition of the growing older population has generated increased research interest in this area. As greater numbers live two and three decades after retirement, the concern for quality of life in later years has become more pressing. Since Havighurst's early studies in the 1950s, researchers have examined the link between leisure involvement and successful aging. Earlier research has well documented a relationship between leisure involvement and life satisfaction of older adults, yet little research has been done to investigate the motives for participation or how leisure participation contributes to well-being (Coleman, 1993). Several recent studies have examined the ...