Volunteering in Middle and Later Life: Is Health a Benefit, Barrier or Both?
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Forces
- Vol. 85 (1) , 497-519
- https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2006.0132
Abstract
The positive association between volunteering and health has been widely interpreted as evidence of the salutary effect of volunteering during adulthoThis publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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