Active Ageing Through Lifelong Learning: The University of the Third Age

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“…A new education system that celebrates inclusive individuality and helps them make creative choices for people livelihood is required (Sinha, 2019). The lifelong learning can arise as an expression of older persons' need to regain power over their own lives (Formosa, 2019).…”

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