GREATER PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT OFFER PROTECTION AGAINST COGNITIVE DECLINE OVER TIME
Usha Dhakal, Sara McLaughlin, Seonjin Kim, Amy Roberts, Jonathon Vivoda, J Scott Brown · 2023
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Usha Dhakal and five co-authors tracked movement, social life, and thinking in older adults with mild impairment in a 2023 study. Eight waves of a national retirement survey, from 2004 to 2018, followed 1,462 Americans aged sixty and up. Thinking scores started near ten on a twenty-seven-point scale and slipped yearly.
More activity and more social engagement each blunted that slide. The protection was small per unit but compounded: after sixteen years, a highly active person scored about three points above a sedentary peer. The effects held beside gene risk and other traits. The authors say keeping older adults moving and connected may slow the path from mild impairment toward dementia. Both levers are cheap and already in daily life.
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| CREATOR | Usha Dhakal, Sara McLaughlin, Seonjin Kim, Amy Roberts, Jonathon Vivoda, J Scott Brown |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |