The AARP Foundation has a program called Experience Corps, which matches older adults as tutors in public schools for economically disadvantaged children. The program has had a positive impact on the children in the ways you might imagine—improved literacy, increased test scores, and improved classroom and social behavior. It also has a positive impact on the volunteers. In one study, volunteers felt a greater sense of accomplishment than a group of control participants and had increases in brain volume for the hippocampus and cortex, compared to the controls, who had brain volume reductions.
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interesting program and could be the basis for some alt. education programs. Mutually beneficial for the parties involved.
