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Volunteering is the Best Medicine | Jutta Curatolo | Volunteering & Humanitarianism
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Volunteering is the Best Medicine by Jutta Curatolo | Jun 19, 2020 | Humanitarianism, Jutta Curatolo, Mental Health, philanthropy, volunteerism
As an avid volunteer knows, you feel good after you help out a worthy cause. Now, according to the Dutch information analytics company Elsevier, it appears that volunteer work could be bene cial not only for your moral well-being but also for your health. The study took information from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative sample of older (Aged 40+) adults in the US. This research examined the data of nearly 13,000 participants over the course of 2010 to 2016. During this period of time, it was shown that those who volunteered at least 100 hours per year – an average of 2 hours a week – had a substantially https://juttacuratolo.net/volunteering-is-the-best-medicine/
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