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Volunteers in care homes for older people
— an underused opportunity? | | Author(s) | Rose Heatley |
| Corporate Author | Relatives & Residents Association - R&RA |
| Publisher | Relatives & Residents Association - R&RA, London, 2007 |
| Pages | 32 pp |
| Source | The Relatives & Residents Association, 24 The Ivories, 6-18 Northampton Street, London N1 2HY. http://www.relres.org |
| Keywords | Voluntary workers ; Care homes ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Although volunteering works successfully in areas of health and social care such as hospices and services for older people in their own homes, little is known about volunteering in care homes. This study attempts to find out more about roles played, amount of input, the benefits and disadvantages of using volunteers, how volunteers are managed, the potential for expansion, and barriers. The study notes the need for befriending and more activities in care homes, with which volunteers could help. The correlation between types of care home (for-profit, not-for-profit) and the prevalence of volunteers is explored. Whereas in the 1970s, volunteers appear to have been common in local authority homes, today they appear most commonly in not-for-profit homes with a tradition of volunteering. Appendices include the activity organisers' questionnaire, questions by telephone to head offices of care home providers, and a list of volunteer roles encountered during the project. This study was submitted for the Diploma in Gerontology at the Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College, University of London in May 2006. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071024210 B |
| Classmark | QV: KW: 3F |
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