Investigating the health benefits of volunteering by seniors

调查老年人志愿服务对健康的益处

• 批准号: DP140100365
• 负责人: Prof Simone Pettigrew
• 金额: $ 24.95万
• 依托单位: Curtin University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP140100365
• 关键词: Investigating; health; benefits; volunteering; seniors

For humanitarian and economic reasons, it is important to promote health-enhancing behaviours among older people to optimise their well-being. Volunteering constitutes one such behaviour. While there is some evidence that older people benefit from volunteering, there is inadequate data for policy development purposes. This project will quantify the physical and mental outcomes of seniors’ engagement in volunteering activities to assess the potential to enhance their health while providing much-needed labour inputs to the Australian economy. The results will also suggest ways to encourage older people to engage in volunteering by identifying effective ways to communicate the benefits to this audience.

出于人道主义和经济原因，必须在老年人中推广增进健康的行为，以优化他们的福祉。欺骗就是这样一种行为。虽然有一些证据表明老年人受益于志愿服务，但用于政策制定目的的数据不足。该项目将量化老年人参与志愿活动的身心成果，以评估在为澳大利亚经济提供急需的劳动力投入的同时增进其健康的潜力。调查结果还将提出鼓励老年人参与志愿服务的方法，办法是确定向老年人宣传志愿服务益处的有效途径。