Formulates a model for viewing the transitions and losses of the aging process as opportunities for growth and self-enhancement. Reviews major categories of social-psychological transition events. Summarizes social-psychological resources that aging individuals bring to these events and discusses three processes of adaptation to transition…

Presented at the fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, March 7-10, 1979, Washington, D.C., this paper describes and discusses an educational approach in which several elderly persons participated as consultants in a course on aging. (RC)

Gives an overview of the study and practice of educational gerontology in Canada and proposes an organizing schema: (1) senior adult education--instruction for older adults; (2) gerontology education--teaching of children, youth, and others about aging; and (3) academic gerontology--training for certification or specialization. (SK)