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Older volunteers : a guide to research and practice

Title
Older volunteers : a guide to research and practice / Lucy Rose Fischer and Kay Banister Schaffer.
Author
Fischer, Lucy Rose.
Publication
Newbury Park, Calif. : SAGE Publications, ©1993.

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Additional Authors
Schaffer, Kay Banister.
Description
xvi, 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
What motivates people to do volunteer work? What are the most effective ways of maintaining the commitment of volunteers? What problems are confronted in working with volunteers - especially older volunteers - and what are the solutions to these problems? Answering these and a host of other questions, Older Volunteers offers a comprehensive review of current research and case study material to provide a synthesis of "best practices" for those who plan, implement, and participate in volunteer programs. The authors examine the range of volunteer roles and organizations, the multiple motivations for volunteering, techniques of recruiting and keeping volunteers, and managerial issues. They also examine and discuss research on minority elderly and address such formidable issues as bias from paid staff and the potential for exploitation.
Subject
  • Older volunteers > United States
  • Older volunteers > United States > Case studies
  • Voluntarism > United States
  • Older volunteers
  • Voluntarism
  • Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit
  • Alter
  • Alter
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. I. Background. 1. Making Miracles. 2. Who Volunteers? 3. Politics to Bake Sales: Types of Volunteering. 4. Why Volunteer? -- pt. II. Working With Older Volunteers. 5. Recruiting Older Volunteers. 6. Keeping Volunteers. 7. Older Volunteers as Workers -- pt. III. Special Topics. 8. Ethics and Other Thorny Issues. 9. Minority Elders as Volunteers. 10. The Benefits to Older Volunteers -- pt. IV. Conclusions and Implications. 11. Thinking Strategically About Older Volunteers -- Appendix A The Older Volunteers Project -- Appendix B Sources of Information on Volunteerism.
ISBN
  • 080395008X
  • 9780803950085
  • 0803950098
  • 9780803950092
LCCN
92040085
OCLC
  • ocm27034209
  • 27034209
  • SCSB-8972362
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library