Benjamin Lough and Xiaoling Xiang, University of Illinois (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Benjamin Lough and Xiaoling Xiang, University of Illinois

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Increasing numbers of older Americans are traveling abroad to perform volunteer work -- and host communities and organizations are clamoring to recruit them, according to studies by social work professor Benjamin Lough and doctoral student Xiaoling Xiang.

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