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The volunteering of older people: the cross European vision
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Abstract(s)
The volunteering is one of the very important human activities which depend on many
factors. Social political cultural and economical activity influences the levels of
volunteering in the countries. On the western economies the volunteering have gain the
significance with increasing tendency to enlarge it in the future. This activity is seems to
have particular importance for the older people. They usually have more time, most of
them are retire and their volunteering work is, fundamental support for the many
volunteering organization.
The objective of this paper is to characterize the older volunteers, identify types of
volunteering activities they are enrolled and to explore the differences between the
volunteerism in different European countries.
The data used on this paper belong to the wave four of integrated World Value Survey.
Description
Trabalho apresentado em First international conference of ERNOP, 7 jnho 2011, Vienna, Austria
Keywords
Older people volunteering Type of volunteering Volunteers’ characteristics