Elder retirement volunteers, as the major manpower source of various organizations, not only present rich experiences and abundant working hours, maintain traditional rules, and cherish service opportunities, but also enjoy playing altruistic roles. For this reason, understanding elder volunteers’ participation motivation and enhancing the job satisfaction to promote the intention of continuous service could avoid the loss of elder volunteers. Aiming at elder volunteers of Hunan Volunteers Association, total 300 copies of questionnaire are distributed for this study and total 226 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 75%. The research results reveal significant positive effects of 1.participation motivation on happiness, 2. happiness on intention of continuous participation, and 3.participation motivation on intention of continuous participation. Meantime, support vector machine (SVM) is used to collect the behavior data of the elderly and preprocess the data with K-means. Then, it is applied to analyze and classify the characteristic data, and then match with the indicators to enhance the happiness of elderly volunteers. According to the results, suggestions are proposed in this study, expecting to encourage and maintain elder retirees’ continuous service by the participation motivation and the enhancement of volunteer happiness to further promote the service efficiency of organizations, under current manpower shortage.

Xiaohua Wang. Impact of Music Education for the Elderly on Depression and Sleep Quality. Frontiers in Educational Research (2026), Vol. 9, Issue 4: 69-77. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2026.090411.

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