Abstract
According to the Council for Economic Planning and Development, Executive Yuan, in 2018, 14% of the population in Taiwan will be elderly people aged 65 years or older, and Taiwan will be considered an aging society. Although elderly people can benefit from learning any type of information, some particular basic knowledge that elderly people should learn can directly or indirectly influence their living skills and quality of life. This study investigated the relationship between quality of life and basic knowledge that elderly people should learn from an elderly learning program. The participants in this study were elderly people who participated in courses provided by elderly universities and local elderly learning centers subsidized by the Ministry of Education in 2013. The research instruments were a questionnaire about the basic knowledge that elderly people should possess and the Taiwanese version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF. The results revealed that whether elderly people value their quality of life determines whether they are willing to learn. This study motivated educators to incorporate basic knowledge that elderly people should learn into elderly learning courses, materials, and activities.