Active Aging and Happiness: European Senior Citizen Volunteers

Saz‐Gil, Isabel; Gil-Lacruz, Ana Isabel; Gil‐Lacruz, Marta

doi:10.31577/sociologia.2019.51.3.14

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“…CV affects the fundamental areas that allow progress towards a healthy company. Participating as a volunteer improves the health and well-being perceived by volunteers [60,111], and allows workers to participate in the community. Thanks to CV, the link with the community remains when workers retire.…”

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“…Therefore, the practice of senior volunteering can also mean better states of physical and psycho-social health, which implies advantages such as higher self-esteem and a sense of usefulness, as well as an active, participatory and healthy aging [53]. The elderly who stay active through volunteer activities not only enjoy better health, but are also reported to be happier [60].…”

Section: Retirement Challenges and Opportunities In Relation To Corpomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Corporate Social Responsibility under the Background of Sustainable Development Goals: A Proposal to Corporate Volunteering

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The research into corporate volunteering (CV) has been prolific, although few studies have focused their approach on senior and retired workers under the framework of the corporate social responsibility (CSR). The social participation of retirees in CV activities contributes to the businesses’ socially responsible performance and can be intimately connected with the global commitment pursued by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030. This article aims to explore the key issues that might have influence the effective implementation of CV programs to integrate retired and pre-retired workers, promoting a participatory and healthy aging. Based on the interface of internal and external corporate social responsibility, we discuss how CV can achieve social legitimacy, influencing the health and well-being of workers beyond the employment relationship. The main contribution of this article to the state of art is to extend the literature on CSR and CV by elaborating a theoretical model that integrates both perspectives with the focus on the SDGs. The results suggest that SDGs represent an opportunity and a frame of reference for CSR strategies. Companies engaged in senior CV activities could enhance their corporate and social images within the strategic action of social responsibility, indisputably improving people’s health and well-being.

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Section: Retirement Challenges and Opportunities In Relation To Corpomentioning

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Exploring Corporate Social Responsibility under the Background of Sustainable Development Goals: A Proposal to Corporate Volunteering

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“…However, from the point of view of both individual well-being and national welfare systems, many variables are left out of the scope of research. For example, volunteering in activities related to human rights might improve a senior's life satisfaction but reduce their happiness [75]. In this research, we focus on perceived health because it is the first proxy to value individual health and the access and use of health services and products [76].…”

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Socially Active Aging and Self-Reported Health: Building a Sustainable Solidarity Ecosystem

2020

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Senior volunteering is associated with improved welfare, in addition to contributing to social development. Thus, the involvement of seniors in non-profit organizations (NPO), the third sector, or the social economy is encouraged by European national governments. At the organizational level, the situation for older volunteers in the third sector has improved in recent years, mainly due to European legal regulations. Despite a certain degree of homogenization across European countries, significant national differences persist in the adoption and promotion of volunteering. The present study examines the link between self-reported health and participation in volunteering activities among European seniors, stratified by sex and generation (the Silent Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation). We focus our analysis on seniors living in Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and Ukraine. Analyses were conducted using empirical micro data from the World Values Survey (WVS; 1994/98, 2005/09 and 2010/14). Our results demonstrate the positive impact of volunteering on health status among the elderly, although we observed marked differences in the associated benefits between sexes, generational cohorts, and countries. Public policies should be developed with this important source of social capital in mind, but should also seek to address existing inequity.

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“…Regarding the types of leisure activities, the elderly are more likely to be happier when they engage in active leisure activities such as physical activity, tourism, and cultural and artistic activities, rather than passive leisure activities such as watching TV and surfing the Internet [17,20,21,[62][63][64]. The elderly who enjoy social leisure activities such as volunteering, clubs, and religious activities are said to have higher levels of happiness [19,[65][66][67][68][69][70]. In addition, there are also studies that have emphasized the importance of passive leisure activities such as napping, watching TV, and reading, along with active leisure activities [71].…”

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Leisure and Happiness of the Elderly: A Machine Learning Approach

Kim,

Kang,

Park

2024

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Leisure activities play an important role in improving happiness levels for the elderly. The purpose of this study is to explore leisure-related factors that affect the happiness of the elderly using machine learning algorithms. For this research, the 2019 National Leisure Activity Survey released by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea, was used to analyze the data of 1769 elders over the age of 65 among 10,060 men and women aged 15 years and older in 17 cities and provinces nationwide, and it went through the process of data preprocessing, data segmentation, prediction model construction and evaluation, and model tuning. According to the findings of the study, the main factors predicting the happiness index of the elderly were leisure life satisfaction, leisure time, whether to use public leisure facilities, leisure policy satisfaction, and leisure activity companionship. The overall findings of this study imply that exploring sustainable policy towards the achievement of sustainable happiness for the elderly is important. Based on these results, policy measures to improve the happiness level of the elderly were discussed.

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Active Aging and Happiness: European Senior Citizen Volunteers

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

Exploring Corporate Social Responsibility under the Background of Sustainable Development Goals: A Proposal to Corporate Volunteering

Exploring Corporate Social Responsibility under the Background of Sustainable Development Goals: A Proposal to Corporate Volunteering

Socially Active Aging and Self-Reported Health: Building a Sustainable Solidarity Ecosystem

Leisure and Happiness of the Elderly: A Machine Learning Approach

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