During a holiday gift drive early in Stacey Shor’s career with the Jewish Children’s Bureau (JCB), she recalls meeting a young ward of the state asking for a CD player. When Shor told her the item was ...

Spending a few hours a week helping others may slow the aging of the brain. Researchers found that both formal volunteering and informal acts, like helping neighbors or relatives, were linked to ...

Regular volunteering or helping others outside the home can reduce the rate of cognitive aging by 15-20%. In the latest evidence that meaningful social connections bolster health, a team from The ...

I was standing in my kitchen the other day, pulling together the fixings for my family's Sunday tea. My phone pinged the characteristic tone of a text from my son, a Peace Corps volunteeer serving in ...

Consider the positive feelings you experienced the last time when you did something good for someone else. Perhaps it was the satisfaction of running an errand for your neighbor, or the sense of ...

WASHINGTON - As people age, conversations about brain health tend to focus on decline - what slows, what fades, what becomes harder. Less often discussed is how everyday roles and routines shape ...