Muree Golf Club life member backs University of Queensland research findings on long life
RESEARCHERS have found that club membership can prolong life and Lionel Clark, 95, is certain that social interaction is the key.
“It’s important to get out and socialise with people,” the Muree Golf Club life member said.
“The problem with people watching TV is that people loose the ability to talk.”
Psychologist Nikolas Steffens at the University of Queensland examined the positive impact social memberships have on health and wellbeing.
It involved 424 people living in England who were at least 50 years old for six years after they retired.
A person who belonged to two clubs for the two years before retirement, and six years after, had a two percent risk of premature death.
If contact was maintained with one club only, the risk jumped to five per cent.
If they cancelled their memberships completely, the risk jumped to 12 per cent.
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