America's aging productive roles in an older society
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press
1986.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | America's aging.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622047406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""America's Aging""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""AMERICA'S AGING""; ""Summary""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Definitions of Productivity""; ""Unpaid Productive Roles: Needs and Contributions of Older Persons""; ""The Symposium on Productive Roles""; ""UNPAID PRODUCTIVE ROLES""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF OLDER AMERICANS""; ""Labor Force Participation and Economic Status""; ""Educational Levels""; ""Household and Family""; ""Health""; ""OLDER AMERICANS AS A SOCIETAL RESOURCE""; ""Incentives and Disincentives""; ""Barriers to Organizational Voluntarism""; ""New Community Settings""
- ""CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS"" ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""The Economics of Volunteerism: A Review""; ""WORK WITHOUT PAY FOR FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS""; ""Amount of Time""; ""Types of Volunteer Activities""; ""ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF THE REASONS FOR VOLUNTEERING""; ""Volunteering Motivated by Altruism""; ""Experience As Compensation for Volunteering""; ""The Effect of Family Obligations on Volunteering""; ""Policy Implications of the Reasons for Volunteering""; ""Lessons From Past Research""; ""WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?""; ""Data on Volunteerism""; ""Motivations to Volunteer""
- ""The Role of the Voluntary Sector"" ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""NOTES""; ""The Older Volunteer Resource""; ""THE NEED AND THE OPPORTUNITY""; ""THE CURRENT AND POTENTIAL OLDER VOLUNTEER POOL""; ""IMPEDIMENTS TO THE OLDER VOLUNTEER""; ""WHAT CAN BE DONE?""; ""Positive Appeal to Older People and Strengthened Recruitment""; ""Improved Recognition and Appreciation""; ""Improved Supervision, Development, and Management""; ""Removal or Reduction of Impediments to Older Volunteers""; ""Legal Restrictions""; ""Expenses""; ""Support and Encouragement""; ""Liability Insurance""; ""Age Bias""; ""NOTES""
- ""Unpaid Productive Activity Over the Life Course"" ""PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES MEASURED AT THE FAMILY LEVEL""; ""Volunteer Time""; ""Emergency Help""; ""Unpaid Productive Work Around the House""; ""PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES MEASURED AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL""; ""Housework""; ""Lifetime Patterns of Family Situations for Individuals""; ""Housework""; ""Total Productive Use of Time""; ""Substitutions of Paid and Unpaid Productive Time""; ""Individual Change""; ""Expressed Desires for More or Less Work""; ""Capacity Illness and Disability""; ""Some Traps in Comparing Age Groups""
- ""What Affects Older Persons' Productive Activity?"" ""WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE US?""; ""SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Sociodemographic Aspects of Future Unpaid Productive Roles""; ""PROJECTIONS OF MAJOR POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS""; ""GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION""; ""LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION""; ""EDUCATION""; ""HOUSEHOLDS AND MARITAL STATUS""; ""KINSHIP RELATIONS""; ""HEALTH STATUS""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Index""
