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Volunteering in older adulthood is associated with activity engagement and cognitive functioning.
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New insight is provided into positive associations between older people’s volunteering, activity engagement, and cognitive functioning, and further work is needed to understand the mechanisms that drive volunteering-cognition links, and to establish causality.Abstract:
Introduction: Given evidence that activity engagement in older adulthood can have protective effects on the aging brain, we investigated the idea that volunteering in the community, which often enc...read more
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