Teaching the Aged Reader: Issues and Strategies

Older adults who identify as readers and choose to read for pleasure in their everyday lives are understudied despite the persistence and pervasiveness of this kind of reading. The phenomenology of reading and critical age studies inform this pilot project that uses in-depth interviews conducted with five readers who are between the ages of 75-90 years and who live in Canada. Data analysis followed principles of close reading and thematic analysis. Findings privilege the voices of the older readers and show how their experiences of reading can be analyzed using the metaphor of reading as a lifeline that, in turn, bridges with notions of resilience and embodied information practices. Reading for pleasure supports resilience and a reflective stance on life among older adults. The findings call for other researchers to engage more readily with older adults and will be of use to librarians and others who provide services, programs, and resources to older adult readers.

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Reading as a lifeline among aging readers: Findings from a qualitative interview study with older adults

Rothbauer

Dalmer

2018

Library & Information Science Research

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Journal of Aging Studies

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Teaching the Aged Reader: Issues and Strategies

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Reading as a lifeline among aging readers: Findings from a qualitative interview study with older adults

Reading as a lifeline among aging readers: Findings from a qualitative interview study with older adults

A community bound by words: Reflections on a nursing home writing group

Literacy and Elders: What We Know and What We Need to Know

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