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| Receptivity to volunteering in the immediate postretirement period | | Author(s) | Francis G Caro, Scott A Bass |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 16, no 4, December 1997 |
| Pages | pp 427-441 |
| Keywords | Voluntary work [elderly] ; Attitude ; Retirement ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Higher rates of volunteering might be expected of older people in the period immediately after retirement because they tend to be in relatively good health and have fewer competing obligations. Data from the Commonwealth Productive Aging Survey, a telephone survey of a representative national sample of 2,999 people aged 55 years and older, confirmed findings of previous research that retirement is not associated with higher rates of volunteering. However, in the first and second years following termination of employment, non-volunteers showed a heightened receptivity to volunteering; that is, they indicated more willingness to take on volunteer assignments and an ability to do so than did older people who were employed or who had been out of the workforce for longer periods. The findings suggest that volunteer coordinators should focus volunteer recruiting efforts on older people who are about to leave jobs or who have recently left jobs. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981015236 A |
| Classmark | GHH: DP: G3: 7T |
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