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Mem­o­ry Loss Slow­er for Work­ing Women (Med­Page Today):

Work­ing women had slow­er mem­o­ry decline as they aged than women who had not worked out­side the home, a lon­gi­tu­di­nal study found.

Non-work­ing moth­ers were twice as like­ly to devel­op mem­o­ry impair­ment at age 70 as work­ing mar­ried moth­ers, report­ed Eliz­a­beth Rose Maye­da, PhD, MPH, of the UCLA Field­ing School of Pub­lic Health in Los Ange­les, and co-authors. [Read more…] about Study: Work in adult­hood seen to sig­nif­i­cant­ly delay mem­o­ry decline after age 60, sup­port­ing the Cog­ni­tive Reserve theory