Promoting transformative learning enables community volunteering to provide meaningful roles for seniors, and promotes citizenship participation and the social economy in an ageing society.
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The first experiments were those which the volunteers knew they would be subjected to.
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Many assumptions - about the volunteers' youth, gender, class, religion, ethnicity, politics, and motives, and how these may have changed over time - therefore remain untested.
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Exploring the ways that older people contribute as informal volunteers in the community helps us understand the breadth and diversity of these activities.
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All three books should be read by professionals and volunteers concerned with the elderly.
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Assistance from family members, friends, paid care givers, and volunteers in the care of terminally ill patients.
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To an extraordinary extent, they have used local volunteers, in tandem with public professionals, to deliver social services.
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Although available to all volunteers who have expenses, in practice honorary executives of voluntary agencies are those most likely to receive the payment.
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Ninety-five people volunteered to participate and answered a face-to-face questionnaire in the presence of an interpreter, after written informed consent was obtained.
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However, everything depended on human cases to provide infective material and volunteers to detect it.
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Effects of catecholamine depletion on alertness and mood in rested and sleep deprived normal volunteers.
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The feedback from volunteers in our target audience, advanced and intermediate users, suggests that we may have achieved our cognitive objectives.
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In every community there are personnel (for example, key workers, volunteers, 'community gatekeepers') who are also consulted by its members at times of need.
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The volunteers, on the other hand, were at least from the next generation, compared to the cultivated variety from which they were lost.
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The role of mass media and the impact of volunteers are discussed in the next two chapters.
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Collocationswithvolunteer
volunteer
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active volunteer
Whether the respondent suffered from chronic diseases was not however related to his or her probability of being anactivevolunteer.
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adult volunteer
There are more than 49,000 cadets, more than 10,000 adult volunteer staff and about 5,000 civilian committee members.
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citizen volunteer
This undoubtedly will result in acitizenvolunteerreserve with a substantial preponderance of what are called teeth arms.
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