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| Leadership in senior centres: power and empowerment in relations between seniors and staff | | Author(s) | Sandra A Cusack |
| Journal title | Education and Ageing, vol 13, no 1, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 49-66 |
| Keywords | Day centres ; Personal relationships ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Personnel ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Seniors' centres offering social activity in safe, comfortable environments serve as important links in networks of community care across Canada. Service delivery depends upon committed senior leader volunteers who share the power and the problems with paid staff. This study explored the relationship between professionals and senior leaders in three seniors' centres, in order to identify issues of power, sources of conflict, and the components of an empowering relationship. Conducted in the tradition of traditional ethnography, research methods include analyses of policy documents, participant observation of executive board meetings, interviews with senior leaders and professionals, and focus groups. Results are presented as portraits of leadership, and the summary focuses on power, empowerment, and empowering relations, followed by a discussion of gender differences and issues concerning the changing mandate of seniors' organisations and the leadership training needs of both professionals and senior volunteers. The article concludes with implications for other contexts. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980609403 A |
| Classmark | NMC: DS: GHH: QM: 7S |
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