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This typically perceptive comment should sent to doctors aged 55+ and every doctor who is in retirement, a term which we in the Optimal Ageing Programme have replaced with Renaissance.
Scarlett McNally emphasises the benefits to the volunteer of volunteering, and our advice is that joining the committee of a voluntary organisation is even more challenging and therefore even more beneficial. There will never be enough professionals so we need to double the number of volunteers and switch money from pointless prescribing to support voluntary organisations
Sir Muir Gray CBE MD
Competing interests:
i provide learning programmes for people aged 55+
Re: Scarlett McNally: Volunteering and charity work offer massive health and community benefits
Dear Editor,
This typically perceptive comment should sent to doctors aged 55+ and every doctor who is in retirement, a term which we in the Optimal Ageing Programme have replaced with Renaissance.
Scarlett McNally emphasises the benefits to the volunteer of volunteering, and our advice is that joining the committee of a voluntary organisation is even more challenging and therefore even more beneficial. There will never be enough professionals so we need to double the number of volunteers and switch money from pointless prescribing to support voluntary organisations
Sir Muir Gray CBE MD
Competing interests: i provide learning programmes for people aged 55+