The "inclusive volunteering" phenomenon: Research into the volunteering of people with disabilities

Volunteering among older people in Korea.

OBJECTIVE Faced with aging societies, there is an immense need to better understand the nature of volunteering outside advanced Western industrial countries. As a case of a rapidly aging society, we identify robust factors associated with elderly volunteering in Korea in terms of a resource framework. METHODS Data were derived from the Social Statistics Survey conducted by the Korea National ...

Volunteering in later life: research frontiers.

OBJECTIVES This review summarizes the current knowledge about volunteering in later life and suggests 5 research questions at the forefront of knowledge development. RESULTS Rates of volunteering do not decline significantly until the middle of the 7th decade, and older volunteers commit more hours than younger volunteers. Older adults with more human and social capital tend to volunteer, and...

Understanding the drivers of volunteering

The Effects of Volunteering on the Volunteer

To most people, a “volunteer” is someone who contributes time to helping others with no expectation of pay or other material benefit to herself. However, this does not mean that volunteer work is of no consequence for the volunteer. Indeed, it is widely believed that helping others is as beneficial for the donor as it is for the recipient. “Research studies show that most people do in fact hold...

The Cost of Volunteering: Consequences of Voluntourism

This study offers a critical analysis of international short-term volunteer work, also known as “voluntourism”, in designated “poor countries”, the global south, by university students from relatively “rich countries”, the global north. Using literature reviews, participant observation, and interviews with student volunteers, the motivations for volunteering its consequences on global health ar...