Older Volunteers A Guide to Research and Practice

This review of research on recruiting, retaining and working with older volunteers provides a synthesis of 'best practices' based on case studies of exemplary volunteer programmes. The authors examine the range of volunteer roles and organizations, the motivation behind volunteering, techniques of recruiting and keeping older volunteers, as well as managerial issues such as developing training programmes.Fischer, Lucy R. is the author of 'Older Volunteers A Guide to Research and Practice' with ISBN 9780803950092 and ISBN 0803950098.