Senior volunteers live longer.Seniors who engage in volunteer activities are likely to live longer, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study reported the Journal of Health Psychology (Oct. 2006) Based on The Longitudinal Study longitudinal study a chronological study in epidemiology which attempts to establish a relationship between an antecedent cause and a subsequent effect. See also cohort study. of Aging which assessed the health and social functioning social functioning, n the ability of the individual to interact in the normal or usual way in society; can be used as a measure of quality of care. of a representative sample of 7527 American community-dwelling older people (over 70 years) researchers tested the hypothesis that frequent volunteering is associated with less mortality risk when the effects of socio-demographics, medical status, physical activity and social integration are controlled. Using the Cox proportional proportional values expressed as a proportion of the total number of values in a series. proportional dwarf the patient is a miniature without disproportionate reductions or enlargements of body parts. hazards analysis to assess the associations between frequency of volunteering and time-to-death (over an eight year period) they found that death occurred in 38.3 percent of the sample. Frequent volunteers had significantly reduced mortality compared to non-volunteers. This association was greatest for those who frequently visited with friends or attended religious services. The researchers are: Alex H. S. Harris and Carl E. Thoresen of Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. in California. |
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