- Accompagnare la longevità
- Edited by Vanna Boffo, Michele Bertani, Donatella Bramanti, Rabih Chattat, Laura Formenti
Il volontariato come contesto di apprendimento per l’invecchiamento attivo
- Paolo Di Rienzo
- Giovanni Serra
- © 2025 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0744-7.30
This paper examines the role of volunteering in later life as a context for learning and personal development, consistent with a life span developmental perspective. Participation in volunteer activities provides older adults with meaningful opportunities to enhance emotional well-being, mitigate cognitive decline, and develop social and civic competencies. Moreover, volunteering constitutes a vehicle for promoting lifelong learning, articulating a sense of care for the community, and sustaining the potential for personal growth and transformation. Drawing on data from a national survey on volunteers’ competences and a critical review of the relevant literature, this contribution underscores the potential of volunteering as an expression of generativity and as a means of recognizing and valorizing the competencies of older adults.
- Keywords:
- Active Citizenship,
- Later Life,
- Lifelong Learning,
- Life Span,
- Volunteering,
Roma Tre University, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-6774-9516
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Il volontariato come contesto di apprendimento per l’invecchiamento attivo
Authors
Paolo Di Rienzo, Giovanni Serra
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0744-7.30
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Book Title
Accompagnare la longevità
Book Subtitle
Buone pratiche educative e formative per l’invecchiamento attivo
Editors
Vanna Boffo, Michele Bertani, Donatella Bramanti, Rabih Chattat, Laura Formenti
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
628
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0744-7
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979-12-215-0743-0
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979-12-215-0744-7
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Series Title
Studies on Adult Learning and Education
Series ISSN
2704-596X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5781