Memo to aging mom: volunteering, the new brain food

Submitted by fiftyshift on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 17:13.

Instead of taking your elderly mom to the Senior Center, maybe you should drop her off at the Boys and Girls Club.

Here's a new study that shows that mentoring and volunteering can actually help old people regain brain function, or fend off decline.

It's preliminary, of course, and only followed 17 women, but it's interesting all the same.

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