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CAMBRIDGE, June 12 — A new US study has found that regular volunteer work could help boost health and well-being for older adults. The participants completed surveys and face-to-face interviews so the researchers could assess 34 measures of physical health and psychological/social well-being and were followed for four years., showed that adults over the age of 50 who volunteer for at least 100 hours a year — which is around two hours a week — benefited from a large reduction in their risk of developing physical limitations and their risk of death.
However, although the findings confirmed what previous smaller studies have also found, the study didn't confirm links between volunteering and improvements to chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke, cancer, heart disease, lung disease, arthritis, obesity, cognitive impairment, or chronic pain.
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