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Sustaining Engagement in Volunteer Activities for Older Adults

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CSCW '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3406865.3418337

Published: 17 October 2020 Publication History

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Sustaining engagement in volunteering opportunities is important for older adults to maintain an active lifestyle. We conducted an observation and interview study with older adults who volunteer in a water monitoring group to investigate the role of sustained volunteering participation on healthy aging. Our findings suggest sustained engagement is influenced by role choice and role change over time. We found that supporting older adults as they age through these two factors allowed them to actively contribute to their health and well-being for many years. We suggest taking participation roles into consideration when designing technologies that promote older adult's health and well-being.

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Skorupska KNielek RKopec W(2021)AFFORCE: Actionable Framework for Designing Crowdsourcing Experiences for Older AdultsIEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology10.1145/3486622.3494026(469-475)Online publication date: 14-Dec-2021
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Sustaining Engagement in Volunteer Activities for Older Adults
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
    1. Redundancy
  2. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
2. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network reliability

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DOI:10.1145/3406865

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Rodríguez Caro CRamos Granados YGonzales Mercado DQuezada Angeles J(2023)Participación ciudadana de adultos mayores en modernización estatal: Una revisión de la literaturaLATAM Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades10.56712/latam.v4i5.13214:5Online publication date: 7-Nov-2023
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