'Active ageing' has become a key phrase in discourses about challenges and remedies for demographic ageing and the enrolment of older adults into voluntary work is an important dimension of it. The pattern and factors conditioning volunteering among older people has so far been an under-researched topic in Europe and this is the first book to study volunteering among older people comparatively and comprehensively.

In this topical book older people's volunteering is studied in eight European countries at the structural, macro, meso and micro levels. Overall it highlights how different interactions between the levels facilitate or hinder older people's inclusion in voluntary work and makes policy suggestions for an integrated strategy.

This book provides important new insights for academics and students interested in ageing societies, active ageing and voluntary work. It will also be of great value for policy makers and practitioners in third sector and voluntary organisations.

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Yes, you can access Active Ageing by Principi, Andrea,Jensen, Per H.,Andrea Principi,Per H. Jensen,Giovanni Lamura in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gerontology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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ACTIVE AGEING
Contents
List of tables and figures
Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Introduction: enhancing volunteering in later life in Europe
2. Volunteering in older age: a conceptual and analytical framework
3. Older volunteers in Italy: an underestimated phenomenon?
4. Older volunteers in Denmark: a large voluntary sector in a highly developed welfare state
5. Older volunteers in Germany: opportunities and restrictions in the welfare mix
6. Older volunteers in England: towards greater flexibility and inclusiveness?
7. Older volunteers in France: recognising their social utility in a less and less corporatist welfare state
8. Older volunteers in Poland: the heritage of a Socialist regime
9. Older volunteers in Sweden: a welfare state in transition
10. Older volunteers in the Netherlands: new challenges to an old tradition
11. Voluntary organisations’ characteristics and practices towards older volunteers
12. Organisational reflections on the impact of working and caring on older volunteering
13. Organisations’ age management of older volunteers: pointing to the future
14. Conclusions: enhancing volunteering by older people in Europe
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