retirement. Twenty-nine percent of respondents in this generation continued volunteering into retirement and 13 percent began … volunteering after retiring, making the Generation of 1968 more active volunteers than older birth cohorts. Policies should support …

This paper examines the effect that working for pay and volunteering has on the mental health of older Irish women and … pay and volunteering have statistically significant and substantially large positive effects on mental health. However … for pay with volunteering is more beneficial in terms of mental health than either working for pay or volunteering on …