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The Intergenerational Leadership Academy
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The Intergenerational Leadership Academy

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Abstract Elders and undergraduate students often express the sentiments of feeling lonely, forgotten, insignificant, lost and without purpose. Transitioning from childhood to young adulthood and from working adult to retired adult are major life changes experienced by these groups. The two groups represented are undergraduate university students, aged 18-35, and community elders aged 55 and over. Although they are separated by decades, the elders and undergraduate university students are joined through the common experience of feeling devalued by communities. The Intergenerational Leadership Academy (ILA) will provide a solution to the two Grand challenges that signify quality of life: social isolation and advancing long and product lives. The ILA will build upon decades of research and positive results of intergenerational programming, recruiting 50 Texas State University undergraduate students, aged 18-35 and community elders aged 55 and over. The group will be randomly assigned to either a control group of 25 elders and 25 university students or the treatment group of 25 university students and 25 community elders. The control and treatment groups will each complete a pre- and post-test of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF survey (WHO, 2018). The results of control and treatment group’s World Health Organization’s Quality of Life-BREF survey will be compared. The comparison will help to understand how participation in the ILA impacts the participant’s quality of life. 
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Asset Metadata
Creator Velez, Lea (author) 
Core Title The Intergenerational Leadership Academy 
School Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work 
Degree Doctor of Social Work 
Degree Program Social Work 
Publication Date 04/05/2019 
Defense Date 12/19/2018 
Publisher University of Southern California (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital) 
Tag intergenerational,leadership development,OAI-PMH Harvest,older adults 
Format application/pdf (imt) 
Language English
Contributor Electronically uploaded by the author (provenance) 
Advisor Singh, Melissa (committee chair) 
Creator Email leavelez@usc.edu,lrr26@txstate.edu 
Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/usctheses-c89-137371
Unique identifier UC11675915 
Identifier etd-VelezLea-7183.pdf (filename),usctheses-c89-137371 (legacy record id) 
Legacy Identifier etd-VelezLea-7183-0.pdf 
Dmrecord 137371 
Document Type Capstone project 
Format application/pdf (imt) 
Rights Velez, Lea 
Type texts
Source University of Southern California (contributing entity), University of Southern California Dissertations and Theses (collection) 
Access Conditions The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law.  Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the a... 
Repository Name University of Southern California Digital Library
Repository Location USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 2810, 3434 South Grand Avenue, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, California 90089-2810, USA
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intergenerational
leadership development
older adults