In these times of dwindling resources for human services, the elderly are considered by many policy analysts and researchers to be the largest untapped source for volunteer recruitment In this article we identify the ...
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Despite the importance of volunteer administrators to nonprofit and many government organizations, little systematic research has been focused on these officials. Using a large national survey of volunteer practitione...
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With the expansion of hospice services, volunteers are being increasingly used to provide emotional, spiritual, and tangible support to the terminally ill and their significant others. Unfortunately, little has been p...
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With the expansion of hospice services, volunteers are being increasingly used to provide emotional, spiritual, and tangible support to the terminally ill and their significant others. Unfortunately, little has been published about the experiences of hospice volunteers. In this paper, we propose a timely agenda for the development and refinement of hospice volunteer programs;outline basic program criteria about which there is emerging consensus;delineate pertinent issues in the screening, training, and job performance of hospice volunteers;and indicate how the implementation of formal program regulations and operations and program evaluation may benefit service recipients and institutional providers.
A psychological strategy for understanding the motivational underpinnings of volunteerism is described. In a presentation that merges the theoretical interests of researchers with the practical interests of volunteer ...
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