INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVE REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE ELDERLY CARE EDUCATION PROGRAMM IN NIGERIA

Elderly population is increasing in the world. Nigerian youth lack knowledge and issues concerning the elderly. There is need to introduce elderly care education in some courses like Home Economics in Nigeria school systems. The study adopted the Research and Development design. The population was 3,348 respondents. Questionnaire was used for data collection which was validated. The draft Elderly Care Education Instructional Objectives developed was validated. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. The research question was analyzed using mean, while ANOVA was used to test the hypothesis. The findings include 24 instructional objectives for elderly care education.