政治
公共关系
社会学
工作(物理)
职位(财务)
社会参与
政治学
心理学
社会心理学
老年学
社会科学
业务
医学
法学
机械工程
财务
工程类
作者
Rodrigo Serrat,Karima Chacur,Feliciano Villar,Inma Peiró-Milian
标识
DOI:10.1080/01634372.2023.2191129
摘要
Most studies on the benefits of late life civic engagement have focused exclusively on formal volunteering. Older adults' political participation is much more overlooked. The current paper explores the benefits of long-term participation in political organizations as described by actively engaged Spanish older people. We used an adaptation of McAdams' life-story interview with 40 participants from three types of political organizations who occupy a responsible position within the organization. We identified three main themes in participants' answers: personal benefits, relational benefits, and community benefits. Overall, our results showed that the benefits arising from long-term political participation go far beyond the well-studied individual benefits that research on late-life volunteering has typically identified, and spread to relational and community areas. Social work practitioners should consider these benefits when they implement plans and programmes to promote healthy, active ways of aging, fostering age-friendly communities or reducing old-age social exclusion.
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