...Anthea Tinker; Victoria Berdugo; Michael Buckland; Lois Crabtree; Anistta Maheswaran; Andrea Ong; Jasmine Patel; Emilia Pusey; Chandini Sureshkumar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence that volunteering before medical school with older people in a care home has...

...Kenneth Walter Dolbear Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the learning from an innovative approach to using volunteers as lay assessors in order to secure improvements in the quality of life of older people in care homes. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes...

..., whether the economy or through volunteering and life experience, and helps councils really embrace making their area a better place in which to grow old. Originality/value This paper will help councils which are not already working with the Ageing Well programme see its value and access its support...

...”; provision of social care; volunteering and non‐financial and other contributions of older people. This paper draws on research published by WRVS in March 2011 while providing more detail on the contribution of, and opportunities for, older volunteers with supporting case studies. Findings The paper...