The Black Aged As Good Neighbors.

Faulkner, Audrey Olsen

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Publication Date: 1975

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The Black Aged As Good Neighbors

Faulkner, Audrey Olsen

Gerontologist, 15, 6, 554-559, Dec 75

Experimental efforts to carry out a program of neighborhood one-to-one volunteer activity by urban low-income black elderly were unsuccessful. An alternate program of volunteering for group activities emerged. Environmental perils, limited professional supports, and volunteer characteristics were seen as accounting for the changed focus. (Author)

Descriptors: Black Community, Community Influence, Helping Relationship, Older Adults, Outreach Programs, Program Descriptions, Research Projects, School Community Programs, Social Services, Volunteers

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