CREATIVE ACTIVITIES AND COGNITION AMONG OLDER ADULTS: DOES EDUCATION MODERATE THE BENEFITS OF CREATIVE ACTIVITIES?
Janelle Fassi · 2023
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Janelle Fassi asks whether creative hobbies protect the aging mind, and whether schooling changes the benefit. Published in 2023, the study uses a national sample of 2,462 Americans aged sixty-five and older from the Health and Retirement Study. Engagement in creative leisure has been linked to slower cognitive loss, and earlier work hints it may compensate most for adults with little early schooling.
Creative engagement tracked with better cognitive scores, and more years of education did too. Doing four creative activities marked a further step in the results shown. The moderation question, whether education strengthens or replaces the creative benefit, is the study's core test. Fassi frames creative activity as a reachable lever for later life cognition.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Janelle Fassi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |