The Effects of Volunteering on the Physical and Mental Health of Older People

By T. Lum, Elizabeth Lightfoot. 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Volunteering as a Productive Aging Activity: Incentives and Barriers to Volunteering by Australian Seniors (2007, background): “Volunteering is a key productive aging activity that is also linked to a range of individual health and social benefits (Greenfield & Marks, 2004; Lum & Lightfoot, 2005).”
• Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “…(2000), for example, identified the ‘boundary conditions’ of the ageing experience, which were described by participants as deteriorating health, deteriorating sense perception, frailty, pain, impaired memory, mobility problems and loss of human relations (particularly the death of a spouse).”
• Volunteering in Middle and Later Life: Is Health a Benefit, Barrier or Both? (2006, background): “A large body of research has demonstrated the salubrious effect of volunteering on physical and mental health, often drawing from role-identity and role enhancement theoretical perspectives (Greenfield and Marks 2004, Lum and Lightfoot 2005, Morrow-Howell et al. 2003).”
• Learning From the Experiences of Older Adult Volunteers in Sport: A Serious Leisure Perspective (2010, background): “…is one leisure activity that has been shown to enhance the mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being of older adults by giving them an opportunity for personal growth and social interaction, and a sense of purpose and productivity (Gill, 2006; Lum & Lightfoot, 2005; Van Willigen, 2000).”
• The effect of time volunteering and charitable donations in later life on psychological wellbeing (2010, background): “…has been found to have positive physical, functional, and mental health outcomes for older volunteers (Harlow and Cantor 1996; Herzog et al. 1998; Lum and Lightfoot 2005; Musick, Herzog and House 1999; Oman, Thoreson and McMahon 1999; Thoits and Hewitt 2001; Van Willigen 2000; Wheeler, Gorey and…”
• Social determinants of mental health (2014, unknown): “In cold climates, improving heating in the house (Critchley et al., 2007, Green & Gilbertson, 2008), help older people (Mead et al., 2010), and opportunities for older to people to volunteer (Lum & Lightfoot, 2005) are effective tools.”