LEARNING FOR LIFE It’s never too late to learn
IT’S easy to think that learning stops after we leave school, but with more of us looking forward to an active retirement, it’s becoming increasingly clear that an active mind is as good for you as a healthy heart.
As well as eating five a day, we should follow six simple rules to keep our mind active:
• Stay curious and involved
• Read, write, work crossword or other puzzles
• Attend lectures and plays • Join a course or club • Try memory exercises • Garden
In recent years, research has revealed much about what happens when people have a neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson’s, AD, or dementia, but also what happens during healthy aging.
As a person gets older, parts of the brain important to learning, memory and planning shrink and there may also be a reduction in the dialogue between neurons as well as blood flow. As a result, even the healthiest among us may notice a modest decline in our ability to learn new things and
retrieve information, such as people’s names. However, with enough time, those in their 70s and 80s often perform as well as young adults. In fact, as we age, adults often improve in other cognitive areas, such as vocabulary and additional brain regions can be activated during cognitive tasks, such as taking a memory test. Researchers do not fully understand why this happens, but one idea is that the brain engages alternative mechanisms to compensate for difficulties that certain regions may be having. These findings have led many scientists to believe that major declines in mental abilities are, therefore, not inevitable. So get your thinking caps on!
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