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Learning opportunities for midlife and older adults have proliferated around the world since the early 1970s, We can attribute this growth to one or all of the following: (a) national efforts to promote lifelong learning societies for people of all ages, (b) initiatives responding specifically to sharp increases in the percentage of a country’s older citizens, and (c) outgrowth of the adult and continuing education movement that gained momentum in the 19th century with the rise of democratic attitudes towards the benefits of education for all — including a nation’s older citizens.

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