Enrich the lives of older adults through civic engagement by Marge Coalman, EdD

As defined by the American Society on Aging (ASA), civic engagement with older adults encompasses individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public and personal concern that are both life enriching and socially beneficial. “Late life civic engagement can take many forms,” observes ASA, “from individual volunteerism to paid part- or full-time work to organizational involvement to electoral participation. A community can be a neighborhood, city, county, nation or the world.”