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Across the Generations: Old People and Young Volunteers

Across the Generations: Old People and Young Volunteers

Webb, Adrian
Farrell, Christine
Hadley, Roger

Hardcover

Series: National Institute Social Services Library, Book 20

Medical ReferencePoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032074507
ISBN13: 9781032074504
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Voluntary work is sometimes praised, sometimes criticised, but was seldom the subject of objective evaluation. Given the importance of the voluntary sector in the social services at the time, the lack of systematic research into its performance was cause for concern. Originally published in 1975, the particular value of this study was twofold: first it provided a detailed and vivid picture of the work of one section of the volunteer movement - young volunteers working with the elderly; second it examined the wider issue of how voluntary work can be evaluated. The particular volunteers studied were organised through Task Force, a London based agency, but both the substantive and research issues discussed had a far wider relevance. A key part of the study explored over a period of twelve months, the development of relationships between a group of old people and the volunteers allocated to them. The authors established a new method of assessing success in these relationships. They then explored possible reasons for the successes and failures in the relationships they studied. They suggest possible changes in the organisation of the work which might help to increase the success rate of volunteer agencies.

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