TY - GEN
T1 - Sustaining engagement in volunteer activities for older adults
AU - Knearem, Tiffany
AU - Wang, Xiying
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/10/17
Y1 - 2020/10/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1145/3406865.3418337
DO - 10.1145/3406865.3418337
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095116831
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 299
EP - 303
BT - CSCW 2020 Companion - Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 3rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2020
Y2 - 17 October 2020 through 21 October 2020
ER -