ArticleInnovation in aging2024
Promoting Late-Life Volunteering With Timebanking: A Quasi-Experimental Mixed-Methods Study in Hong Kong.
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- Timebanking promotes equitable volunteering in older adults without crowding-out effects: evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Hong Kong.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Volunteer Services in Palliative Care by Third Age University Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: This study explores the impact of timebanking, where individuals earn time credits, nonmonetary currency, on promoting volunteerism among older adults. Research Design and Methods: This study employed a quasi-experimental design with 116 timebank group (TBG) participants and 114 comparison group (CG) participants from 2021 to 2022. TBG received time credits to exchange for rewards, while CG received no time credits (i.e., volunteering as usual). The intervention of timebanking lasted for 1 year. Volunteering behaviors were tracked via an app, and intentions to volunteer were assessed at baseline (T0), after 6 months (the midpoint of the intervention, T1), and after 12 months (the endpoint of the intervention, T2). The use of rewards by TBG participants was also recorded (e.g., for personal use or sharing with others). Furthermore, focus group interviews were conducted to understand how rewards influenced participants' volunteerism. Results: TBG had significantly higher weekly volunteer hours at T2 (β = 1.37, Discussion and Implications: Timebanking effectively encourages late-life volunteering. The study provides practical implications for promoting volunteering among older people.
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