Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ506060
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0360-1277
The Older Volunteer as Research Colleague: Toward "Generative Participation" for Older Adults.
Prager, Edward
Educational Gerontology, v21 n3 p209-18 Apr-May 1995
In Tel Aviv, 11 older volunteers were trained in survey techniques and interviewed frail elderly persons. High interrater correspondence and consistency of responses were indications of older interviewers' competence; they had greater insight and understanding of their respondents' situations. (SK)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Frail Elderly, Gerontology, Interviews, Older Adults, Peer Relationship, Research, Volunteers
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel (Tel Aviv)
