Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy

Tao Deng

doi:10.47297/wspelWSP2515-824402.20250902

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Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy

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Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy
Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy
School of Marxism, Nanfang College, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510970, China
2025年9卷第2期页码：9-13
纸质出版：2025-06-30
DOI：10.47297/wspelWSP2515-824402.20250902
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Tao Deng. (2025). Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy. 老年法学（英文版）, 9(2), 9-13.

Tao Deng.Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy[J].Elder Law,2025,09(02):9-13.
Tao Deng. (2025). Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy. 老年法学（英文版）, 9(2), 9-13. DOI： 10.47297/wspelWSP2515-824402.20250902.

Tao Deng.Organized Active Aging: How Urban Elderly Volunteer Groups in China Mediate Role Identity, Social Integration, and Policy Advocacy[J].Elder Law,2025,09(02):9-13. DOI： 10.47297/wspelWSP2515-824402.20250902.

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This study underpins the dynamic co-constitution of role identity and social integration

advancing Active Aging during population aging and grassroots governance modernization. Drawing on an integrated framework of Role Theory and Social Integration Theory

this study adopts qualitative methods (semi-structured interviews

participatory observation

document analysis) to compare technical

service-oriented

and cultural volunteer groups in Guangzhou. Findings reveal older volunteers shift from passive recipients to proactive agents

with reciprocal reinforcement between multifaceted role identity and social integration. Organizational resource strategies (grassroots autonomy

professional collaboration

governance embeddedness) serve as key moderators. The research adds to Active Aging theory by proposing a novel organized mediation paradigm

clarifying institutional influences on identity-integration dynamics and offering practical strategies for mobilizing senior human capital.

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