Absolutely Positively Ageing: Positive ageing and volunteering in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Overton, John; Stupples, Polly; Clowes, Alice. Victoria University of Wellington, 2016.
This article illustrates the complexities inherent in the relationship between volunteering and positive ageing and show how volunteering was used by the participants of the study, as a means to resist and challenge negative stereotypes and representations of ageing. There was a fine balance between the promotion of volunteering as one of a multitude of ways in which older people can participate in their communities and overstating the benefits of volunteering to individuals and their communities without revealing the potential challenges.