www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/18/charities-urged-to-boost-minority-volunteering-to-tackle-loneliness
Yesterday: it was all over the news that loneliness affects health, and the government was going to do something about it.
Today: "The crisis of loneliness identified this week by Theresa May could get worse unless Britain’s charities start persuading more people who are poor, old, ill and from ethnic minorities to start volunteering, a government-funded study says."
So - a double win - alleviate loneliness and gather more people in to do all new voluntary jobs that are arising - running food banks, running public libraries, maintaining parks, etc
Apparently volunteering rates drop off after the age of 75. I wonder why that is? Could it be, for example, that an increasing proportion of one's later life is spent in ill-health? (a recent study found that, for women, it was up to a quarter of their life?)