Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140100365

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140100365

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Investigating the health benefits of volunteering by seniors. For humanitarian and economic reasons, it is important to promote health-enhancing behaviours among older people to optimise their well-being. Volunteering constitutes one such behaviour. While there is some evidence that older people benefit from volunteering, there is inadequate data for policy development purposes. This project will quantify the physical and mental outcomes of seniors’ engagement in volunteering activities to assess the potential to enhance their health while providing much-needed labour inputs to the Australian economy. The results will also suggest ways to encourage older people to engage in volunteering by identifying effective ways to communicate the benefits to this audience.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-2014

End Date: 31-12-2016

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $360,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health Promotion | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified | Public Health and Health Services

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behaviour and Health | Health Related to Ageing | Mental Health |

Other Keywords

Behaviour and Health | Health Promotion | Health Related to Ageing | Mental Health | Public Health and Health Services | Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified

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