Volunteering can be beneficial to you, too

Do you have a few idle hours on your schedule? If you become a volunteer, you'll not only do good for others, you'll do good for yourself.

Although volunteering won't give you a paycheck, it does offer fringe benefits.

For example, seniors who help others have lower rates of depression and fewer health problems, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency.

If you're looking for some volunteer opportunities, you can go to getinvolved .gov, the Web site operated by SeniorCorps.

You can narrow the search by ZIP code and by the type of work that interests you. AARP also has a volunteer-jobs search engine that can be localized by ZIP code at createthegood.org.