For the person nearing retzrement, two areas of concern are the need to spend less because income is less and the need to develop leisure activities. In its examination of the retirement process, The Retirement History Study of the Social Security Administration collected information on the spending of preretirees aged 58-63 for key budget items, as w,ell as data that may help to gauge the leve...

This study aims to analyse the role of corporate volunteerism in framework social responsibility enterprises. After reviewing active components employee volunteering concept, we present steps taken at European level this area, focusing on Spain’s situation. We start with a search and comparison information topic published by major Spanish listed companies. first approach verifies that data are ...

I trace how the American Society for Cell Biology became a strong political advocate for the scientific community. I celebrate how good leadership and an effective staff enabled its energetic volunteer organization to have an impact, but I also ask how the effort can be made more successful.

Avoiding the tragedy of the commons requires that one or more individuals in a group or partnership "volunteer", benefiting the group at a cost to themselves. Recognition and negotiation with social partners can maintain cooperation, but are often not possible. If recognition and negotiation are not always the mechanism by which cooperative partnerships avoid collective tragedies, what might ex...

We present findings, which suggest that volunteer participants for user studies are not a representative sample of the general population, but are more extrovert and open personalities. Since it has been shown by other workers that personality and other social factors influence user evaluation of computer media, this suggests a need for the field of HCI to consider the possible non-representati...

OBJECTIVE In Japan, the Integrated Community Care System aims to support residents to live as independently as possible at home. Koreisya-Kyoshitsu and Fureaiikiiki salons are two types of group activities for community-dwelling elderly. We investigated effective ways of conducting such activities. METHODS We analyzed 96 subjects from 8 salons and 354 subjects from 10 Koreisya-Kyoshitsu. Self...