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Volunteer participation in community care

Knapp, Martin R J., Koutsogeorgopoulou, V., Davis Smith, Justin (1996) Volunteer participation in community care. Policy and Politics, 24 (2). pp. 171-192. ISSN 0305-5736. (doi:10.1332/030557396782107124) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:26909)

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Abstract

Volunteer inputs to community care (health and social services) are important in the developing mixed economy of welfare. And community care is a common locus for volunteering activity in the UK. But who are these volunteers? And what factors<p><p>motivate and constrain volunteering. Using data from a UK household survey, the patterns of community care volunteering are examined using multivariate statistical methods. Many individual, household and other characteristics influence volunteering, with quite marked differences in the patterns for distinct types of community care activities: health and social welfare organisations generally, supporting elderly people, visiting sick or elderly people, and transporting or escorting. Methodologically, the results point to failures of previous studies and lower income groups. These and other findings have implications for community care policy and practice.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1332/030557396782107124
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: R. Bass
Date Deposited: 21 May 2011 01:30 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:32 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/26909 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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