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Volunteering in retirement
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Volunteering can play a significant role in people's lives as they move from work to retirement. Yet various barriers, both institutional and attitudinal, appear to be deterring people from taking up volunteering later in life. For some older people, volunteering offers a 'structured' means of making a meaningful contribution in society once the opportunity to do so through work has been cut off. Whilst some older people volunteer because they have always done so, for others retirement is the trigger for volunteering for the first time. Older volunteers from black and minority ethnic communities were under-represented. Organisations had tried to broaden recruitment, usually without much success. This was put down to lack of resources for outreach work and to deep-rooted issues around the image of volunteering. Organisations which had had more success pointed to the importance of working with community leaders and black and minority ethnic groups in their community.
Risk, trust and relationships in an ageing society: summary
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Trust has been typified as the social glue that binds society together, while risk is seen as a countervailing force. This report summary outlines the findings of a scoping study which reviewed evidence drawn from a range of disciplines on the risk, trust and confidence aspects of decision-making in informal and semi-formal caring and supportive relationships in an ageing society. It considers the role of individual motivation and cognition in dealing with some of the challenges, choices and tensions confronted in daily life in relation to the issues of risk and trust. It looks at both informal and semi-formal caring and supportive relationships. This summary lists the key points identified by the review and also briefly discusses the findings in relation to: decisions on caring and supporting; society’s capacity to support and ageing population; risk and trust in informal and semi-formal social care; and influencing formal social care practice. The importance of social norms such as reciprocity and altruism is considered. In addition, the decline of personal support networks of older people, at a time when social networks tend to become increasingly important, is also discussed.