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- Komp, Kathrin, 1977-, et al.
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Age, retirement, and health as factors in volunteering in later life
- 2012
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Ingår i: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. - : Sage Publications. - 0899-7640 .- 1552-7395. ; 41:2, s. 280-299
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Volunteering in later life attracts attention because its benefits older volunteers, voluntaryassociations, and society. Unfortunately, researchers and practitioners struggle withthe complexity of predicting who volunteers. The authors ask whether a roughidentification of older volunteers solely based on age is possible. The authors answerthis question by means of structural equation modeling, analyzing international surveydata. The findings show that the direct effect of age on the time older people spendvolunteering is negligible. Moreover, the age patterns in volunteering created byretirement and declining health are weak. Those findings make age an unsuitable indicatorfor volunteering in later life. The authors recommend that voluntary organizations andpolicy makers use personal characteristics, such as health status, when defining theirtarget groups for programs that encourage volunteering. In addition, researchersshould not use an age group when referring to the third age, meaning the active andproductive part of old age.
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- Komp, Kathrin, 1977-
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Old age : From crisis to opportunity and back again?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Newsletter of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological Association. - : The Research Committee on the Sociology of Aging of the International Sociological Association. ; :2, s. 8-9
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- Komp, Kathrin, 1977-, et al.
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Policies for older volunteers : A study of Germany and Italy, 1990–2008
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Aging Studies. - : Elsevier. - 0890-4065 .- 1879-193X. ; 27:4, s. 443-455
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Older people increase their well-being and contribute to the community when they volunteer. Therefore, policy-makers sometimes consider supporting older volunteers. However, they reach different conclusions on whether they should introduce policies for older volunteers, and on what policy would be the most suitable. This article studies how policies for older volunteers emerged in Germany and Italy, both countries having one of the oldest populations in the world. It explores the political discourse on older volunteers, and how this discourse translates into policies. To do this, the article presents data collected in expert interviews and document analysis. Findings show that German policy-makers stress the contribution of volunteering to older people's well-being and have introduced policies for older volunteers. Italian policy-makers, in contrast, frame older volunteers as social service providers and have decided not to single out specific age groups in their policies for volunteers. Moreover, the policies are influenced by the policy-makers' perceptions and path-dependencies, meaning policies and institutions that were introduced in the past. These findings suggest that whether or not policies for older volunteers emerge depends less on the characteristics of the older population and more on the society and its political traditions.
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