id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qu3mar6gefenhhq7mylblsfesy K. W. Piercy Challenges and Psychosocial Growth for Older Volunteers Giving Intensive Humanitarian Service 2011 11 .pdf application/pdf 8658 1200 70 described altered personal perspectives, with lessened materialism and self-focus, greater appreciation of cultural differences, and finding existential with human services coupled with increased availability of healthy older adults suggests their potential contributions to volunteer work. increasingly has been channeled into volunteer service, and today, more than 60% of adults ages 55 also a source of older American's service, incorporating 46.7% of all volunteers aged 65 years and Corps volunteers reported benefits of overseas service, including increased confidence and coping In our research, we worked with religious organizations sponsoring intensive volunteering to discover institutional attributes that facilitated senior We also examined the challenges faced and psychosocial benefits these volunteers attained when they left home to serve, which To succeed in recruiting and retaining older volunteers for intensive service, it is crucial to understand challenges did older adults in intense volunteer service describe and how were these challenges met? ./cache/work_qu3mar6gefenhhq7mylblsfesy.pdf ./txt/work_qu3mar6gefenhhq7mylblsfesy.txt