ArticleInnovation in aging2023
Volunteering and Changes in Cardiovascular Biomarkers: Longitudinal Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study.
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- Detecting age differences in prosociality using a newly developed picture-based measure.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis of Volunteering and Cognitive Functioning: Implications for Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.American journal of preventive medicine · 2026Article
- Examination of Total Hours of Volunteering or Informal Helping Among Older Adults and Risk of Future Functional Disability Using Data From a Large Panel Study.The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association · 2026Article
- Volunteering, chronic stress, and systemic inflammation among middle-aged and older adults.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Reducing Hypertension Through Volunteering? Investigating the Potential Causal Link Between Volunteering Frequency and Blood Pressure by Gender, Race, and Age Groups.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Article
- Volunteering and Risk of Heart Attack in Later Life: The Moderating Role of Purpose in Life?Research on aging · 2025Article
- Does volunteering reduce epigenetic age acceleration among retired and working older adults? Results from the Health and Retirement Study.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Longitudinal reciprocal associations between volunteering, health and well-being: evidence for middle-aged and older adults in Europe.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Does Helping Others Always Benefit Health? Longitudinal Evidence on the Relationship between Helping Behavior and Depression: The Mediating Role of Life Satisfaction and the Moderating Effect of IADL.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
- Effects of Participation in Volunteer Activities on CD34Sage open agingArticle
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: Growing body of research shows that volunteering is beneficial for those served, the volunteers, and the larger communities. However, major challenges remain that hinder the practical implications for volunteer activity as a public health intervention, including potential selection effects, lack of longitudinal studies that adjust for baseline characteristics, and a paucity of studies that consider multiple physical health outcomes in a single model. Research Design and Methods: Data from 2006 to 2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (2006-2016) were used ( Results: Compared with nonvolunteers, volunteering more than 200 hr a year was associated with a lower risk for clinically high diastolic blood pressure. In addition, increased volunteering effort (change from 1 to 99 hr at Discussion and Implications: The current study adds to the evidence on the health benefits of volunteering for adults 50 and older by inferring a potential causal link between high-intensity volunteering and reduced blood pressure.
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