Older Volunteers: A Guide to Research and Practice

by Lucy Rose Fischer, Kay Bannister Schaffer, Lucy Rose Fischer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080395008X
• ISBN13: 9780803950085
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 272 Pages