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Volunteering and Healthy Lifestyle

• Definition of Health according the the
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• The WHO goal is for all people to have the
  highest possible level of health. Health is
  described as physical, mental and social
  well-being, and not just the absence of sickness.
  

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Balanced Health
Emotional Health
Physical Health
Something Important to Do
Social Health
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True or False?

• Feeling ill affects your social life.

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True or False?

• True When you feel
• sick, you dont feel like going out. People stay
  away because they dont
• want to get sick.

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Benefits of Volunteering

• Fact
• Senior volunteers
• benefit from social
• support.
• Many seniors are
• at risk for social isolation and aging-related
  stresses.
• Research suggests that volunteering increases
  social activity and social networks and reduces
  isolation and dependency.

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True or False?

• Staying at home all the time affects your heart
  health.

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True or False?

• True Your heart is a muscle. It
• needs exercise. Getting out of
• the house on a regular basis
• Keeps you more active
• Increases your ability
• to move
• Is good for your heart and other muscles

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Benefits of Volunteering
Fact Senior volunteers build houses and do home
repairs, help do grocery shopping, drive others,
and deliver meals to frail elders.
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True or False?

• What you eat can affect how happy you are.

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True or False?

• True A balanced diet is important for your
  bodys chemicals to work together properly.

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Benefits of Volunteering
Fact Senior volunteers learn about nutrition
when they are concerned with food for others.
They learn about special diets for diabetes and
lowering cholesterol. They also benefit from
healthy meals at meal-sites and
program-sponsored events.
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True or False?

• Stress can make you depressed.

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True or False?

• True Stress takes energy from other important
  things you want to do. It can make you feel tired
  and blue.

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Benefits of Volunteering
Fact The regular physical and social activities
of volunteering reduce stress by helping you
sleep well at night and not sleep during the
day, avoid overeating or not eating at all, and
keeping you involved with others, which helps
you share your concerns.
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True or False?

• Being alone challenges you to think harder.

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True or False?

• False Being alone a lot narrows your point of
  view. Mental processes are reduced.
• Memory can
• be affected.

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Benefits of Volunteering

• Learning
• Volunteers steadily gain skills in these areas
  the more they volunteer
• Interpersonal
• Communication
• Knowledge
• Managerial
• Fundraising
• Technical or office skills

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Benefits of Volunteering

• Learning also
• Makes you feel good
• about yourself
• Makes someone else
• feel good for having taught you
• Makes you feel capable to pass along information
  to someone else

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Balanced Health
Emotional Health
Physical Health
Volunteer!
Social Health
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References

• Tess Scannell, Director, CNCS Senior Corps
• http//www.whcoa.gov/about/policy/meetings/summary
  /tess20remarksdec102004.pdf
• Volunteering can enhance seniors' social support
  networks, contributing to their physical and
  psychological health.
• http//www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/vs-sb/voluntarysector/b
  enefits/benefits1c.html
• What can volunteering do for you?
• http//www.timebank.org.uk/aboutgiving/benefits_vo
  l.htm

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References

• Helper's high volunteering makes people feel
  good, physically and emotionally
• Psychology Today,  Oct, 1988  by Allan Luks
• Secret Benefits of Generosity 
• THE GIVING HEART
• by M.J. Ryan
• Internet excerpt