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Newslinks for Older Adult Issues
News (from the National Council on Aging)
More Seniors Now Online, Says New Report
April 20, 2004
Older Americans and the Internet ,” a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says that the percentage of seniors who go online has jumped by 47 percent between 2000 and 2004. Pew Report (downloadable).
WASHINGTON – Eighty percent of baby boomers say they expect to perform volunteer work in their later years *—but will there be enough volunteer opportunities to go around? Research suggests no, according to The National Council on the Aging. >>MORE
New Studies Show Benefits of Volunteering. Older adults who volunteer in troubled urban schools not only improve the educational experience of children, but realize meaningful improvements in their own mental and physical health, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.>>MORE
The New Face of Retirement : 2002
An Ongoing Survey of American Attitudes on Aging. In Summer 2002, Civic Ventures undertook its second national survey focusing on the attitudes of the next generation of retirees toward continuing to contribute to society. >>MORE
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