Longitudinal Associations Between Formal Volunteering and Cognitive Functioning

Christine M. Proulx, Angela L. Curl, Ashley E. Ermer

The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 2017 · 97 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

Volunteering is a productive activity that is beneficial not just to society, but to volunteers' levels of cognitive functioning in older age. For women and those with lower levels of education, formal volunteering appears particularly beneficial to working memory and processing.

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