America's aging : productive roles in an older society / / Committee on an Aging Society, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1986
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.2/6
• Soggetto topico: Older people - United States; Voluntarism - United States
• Note generali: "This report ... presents the papers commissioned for the May 1983 Symposium on Unpaid Productive Roles in an Aging Society"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Titolo autorizzato: America's aging
• ISBN: 1-280-22211-5; 9786610222117; 0-309-59558-4; 0-585-15556-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778674603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: America's aging.