Older Volunteers: A Guide to Research and Practice
Author:   Lucy Rose Fischer ,  Kay Bannister Schaffer
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN:  

9780803950092


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   23 April 1993
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained


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Older Volunteers: A Guide to Research and Practice


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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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Author:   Lucy Rose Fischer ,  Kay Bannister Schaffer
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9780803950092


ISBN 10:   0803950098
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   23 April 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

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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