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Volunteering as a productive aging activity
— incentives and barriers to volunteering by Australian seniors | | Author(s) | Jeni Warburton, Jessica Paynter, Andrea Petriwskyj |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 26, no 4, August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 333-354 |
| Source | http://jag.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Participation ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Recent research demonstrates that involvement in productive activities, particularly volunteering, has important societal and individual benefits in the contemporary ageing environment. However, less attention has been paid to the structural dimension of volunteering or what encourages or discourages older people regarding volunteering. The authors present the findings from a two-phase, mixed-method Australian case study that explores the incentives and barriers to volunteering by those aged 50 and older, all members of a national seniors organisation. Results suggest that governments and organisations need to consider many issues if more seniors are to be attracted to volunteering. Ensuring appropriate incentives to encourage volunteering was viewed as particularly important, with incentives including the need for more training, more flexible and diverse options and more opportunities for intergenerational work. Potential barriers included negative perceptions of volunteer activities, fear of encountering ageism, and concerns about the increasingly regulatory organisational environment. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080124207 A |
| Classmark | GHH: TMB: DP: 3F: 7YA |
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