An economic and social evaluation of the Senior Help Line in Ireland

Ageing and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 267-284

  O'Shea, Eamon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Best practice; Evaluation; Senior help line; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644533481     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X05004241     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bailey, D. 1997. Research for the Health Professional: A Practical Guide. F.A. Davis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2. De Leo, D., Dello Buono, M. and Dwyer, J. 2002. Suicide among the elderly: The long-term impact of a telephone support and assessment intervention in northern Italy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 226-9.
3. Drummond, M. F., O'Brien, B., Stoddart, G. L. and Torrance, G. W. 1997. Methods for the Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
4. Mildarsky, E. 1991. Helping as coping. In Clark, M. (ed.), Prosocial Behaviour. Sage, Newbury Park, California, 238-64.
5. Mirowsky, J. and Ross, C. 1989. Social Causes of Psychological Distress. Aldine de Gruyter, New York.
6. Morrow-Howell, N., Hinterlong, J., Rozario, P. A. and Tang, F. 2003. Effects of volunteering on the well-being of older adults. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 58, S137-45.
7. Nardi, P. M. 2003. Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods. Pearson Education, Boston, Massachusetts.
8. Narushima, M. 2005. 'Payback time': Community volunteering among older adults as a transformative mechanism. Ageing & Society, 25, 4, 567-84.
9. Newman, S., Vasudef, J. and Onawola, R. 1985. Older volunteers' perceptions of impacts of volunteering on their psychological well-being. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 4, 2, 123-7.
10. Nutbeam, D. 1999. Health promotion effectiveness: The questions to be answered. In International Union for Health Promotion and Education (eds), The Evidence of Health Promotion Effectiveness. European Commission, Brussels, 1-11.
11. O'Shea, E. 2003. Healthy Ageing in Ireland: Policy, Practice and Evaluation. National Council on Ageing and Older People, Dublin.
12. Parsons, G. R. 2003. The travel cost model. In Champ, P. A., Boyle, K. J. and Brown, T. C. (eds), A Primer in Nonmarket Valuation. Kluwer Academic, London, 1-68.
13. Rootman, I., Goodstadt, M., Potvin, L. and Springett, J. 2001. A framework for health promotion evaluation. In Rootman, I., Goodstadt, M., Hyndman, B., McQueen, D. V., Potvin, L., Springett, J. and Ziglio, E. (eds), Evaluation in Health Promotion: Principles and Perspectives. World Health Organisation, Copenhagen, 7-38.
14. Rosenberg, M. and McCullough, B. C. 1981. Mattering: Inferred significance and mental health among adolescents. Research in Community and Mental Health, 2, 163-82.
15. Schumpeter, J. 1954. History of Economic Analysis. George Allen and Unwin, London.
16. Smith, D. H. 1981. Altruism, volunteers and volunteerism. Journal of Voluntary Action Research, 10, 21-36.
17. Thoits, P. A. 1983. Multiple identities and psychological well-being. American Sociological Review, 48, 174-87.
18. Thoits, P. A. 1992. Identity structures and psychological well-being: gender and marital status comparisons. Social Psychology Quarterly, 55, 236-56.
19. Thoits, P. A. and Hewitt, L. N. 2001. Volunteer work and well-being. Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 42, 115-131.
20. Umberson, D. J., Chen, M. D., House, J. S. and Hopkins, K. 1996. The effect of social relationships on psychological well-being. American Sociological Review, 61, 837-57.
21. Van Willigen, M. 2000. Differential benefits of volunteering across the life-course. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 55B, S308-18.
22. Victor, C. R., Scambler, S. J., Bowling, A. and Bond, J. 2005. The prevalence of, and risk factors for, loneliness in later life: A survey of older people in Great Britain. Ageing & Society, 25, 3, 357-76.
23. Wheeler, J. A., Gorey, K. M. and Greenblatt, B. 1998. The beneficial effects of volunteering for older volunteers and the people they serve: a meta-analysis. International Journal of Ageing and Human Development, 47, 1, 69-79.
24. Wilson, J. and Musick, M. 1999. The effects of volunteering on the volunteer. Law and Contemporary Problems, 62, 141-63.
25. Wuthnow, R. 1991. Acts of Compassion. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.