Study finds that cognitive activity in old age may delay the onset of dementia by 5 years

Demen­tia Comes 5 Years Lat­er for Some (Med­Page Today): A cog­ni­tive­ly active lifestyle that involves read­ing and pro­cess­ing infor­ma­tion in old age may delay the onset of demen­tia in Alzheimer’s dis­ease by as much as 5 years, a lon­gi­tu­di­nal study sug­gest­ed. Old­er adults who had the high­est lev­el of late-life cog­ni­tive activ­i­ty had a mean onset…

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Systematic review finds ten lifestyle factors that clearly impact the probability of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD)

Although there’s still no cure, researchers are con­tin­u­ing to devel­op a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what increas­es a person’s risk of devel­op­ing Alzheimer’s dis­ease. A recent study that looked at 396 stud­ies has even been able to iden­ti­fy ten risk fac­tors that are shown to increase the like­li­hood of devel­op­ing the dis­ease. Here are the factors…

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Reading or watching TV tonight?

Being a Life­long Book­worm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age (Smithsonian.com): “…find­ings, pub­lished online today in Neu­rol­o­gy, sug­gest that read­ing books, writ­ing and engag­ing in oth­er sim­i­lar brain-stimulating

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