Older volunteers : a guide to research and practice

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Older volunteers : a guide to research and practice

Lucy Rose Fischer, Kay Banister Schaffer

SAGE Publications, c1993

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This review of research on recruiting, retaining and working with older volunteers provides a synthesis of 'best practices' based on case studies of exemplary volunteer programmes. The authors examine the range of volunteer roles and organizations, the motivation behind volunteering, techniques of recruiting and keeping older volunteers, as well as managerial issues such as developing training programmes.

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PART ONE: BACKGROUND Making Miracles Who Volunteers? Politics to Bake Sales Types of Volunteering Why Volunteer? PART TWO: WORKING WITH OLDER VOLUNTEERS Recruiting Older Volunteers Keeping Volunteers Older Volunteers as Workers PART THREE: SPECIAL TOPICS Ethics and Other Thorny Issues Minority Elders as Volunteers e Benefits to Older Volunteers PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS Thinking Strategically About Older Volunteers

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