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Peer reviewedFaulkner, Audrey Olsen – Gerontologist, 1975
Experimental efforts to carry out a program of neighborhood one-to-one volunteer activity by urban low-income black elderly were unsuccessful. An alternate program of volunteering for group activities emerged. Environmental perils, limited professional supports, and volunteer characteristics were seen as accounting for the changed focus. (Author)
Descriptors: Black Community, Community Influence, Helping Relationship, Older Adults
Peer reviewedHart, Vicki R.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1996
Describes a unified, statewide effort to increase outreach activities targeted to ethnic minority families with a demented relative. Provides data demonstrating the effectiveness of these programs. (SNR)
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Asian Americans, Blacks, Community Programs
