Newsletter for community-center volunteers: Retired persons who regularly volunteer their time to help others generally display fewer and milder effects of aging than their nonvolunteering contemporaries: in social resources, mental outlook, physical health, economic resources, and overall functioning, they are found to be substantially stronger than nonvolunteers  Volunteering is often described as doing good works to improve the lives of others
How good to know that there is evidence that it can equally benefit your own well-being
those with better resources, health, outlook, and functioning are more able to work as volunteers