GROUP VOLUNTEERING AS SERIOUS LEISURE AND SUCCESSFUL AGING

Information and food blogging as serious leisure

Purpose-To explore aspects of creating, seeking, sharing and management of information in food blogging asserious leisure. Design/methodology/approach-Participants‟ conceptualisation of food blogging and the role of information in it is interpreted through in-depth interviews and analysis of activity on the UK Food Bloggers Association website. Findings-Food blogging as a leisure pursuit result...

Volunteering and Aging

1 In the next two decades, the number of Americans age 55 or older will swell from 76 million to 110 million as the large baby-boom generation continues to age. Older Americans’ health and well-being is important for the entire society, and the longer they can live independently, the lower the social costs will be for the society as a whole. This e-newsletter provides an overview of demographic...

Successful aging as a multidimensional concept: An integrative review

    Background: Successful aging as an umbrella term with a large amount of literature has emerged with a variety of meanings and dimensions in different studies. This article aims at determining what dimensions contribute to constructing the concept of successful aging.    Methods: The method used in this study is an integrative review of published literature related ...

Adaptive Sport as Serious Leisure: Do Self-Determination, Skill Level, and Leisure Constraints Matter?

Development and Validation of Successful Aging Instrument

Objectives: Successful aging is an interdisciplinary concept. Despite the great body of literature on successful aging, few studies have focused on its subjective and multidimensional measurements. Thus, the present study aimed to develop an instrument to measure self-perceived successful aging. Methods: We used a mixed method approach. The successful aging dimensions were explored through an ...