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Education, more general education on memory, healthy
lifestyle, and compensatory strategies can improve subjective memory and prospective
memory. People know more about their memory and how to use it. Why it is going wrong if it
is going wrong. It seems unclear if increased mental activity late in life can affect
cognitive status or stave off dementia. And this one, of course, is really one of the key
factors I was trying to learn about here because this is one of the suppositions in the
popular iterature that okay you’re 74 years old, you spent your life pretty much at home
watching TV and you finally realize, it finally clicks, I need to be more mentally active,
more physical active. Going out now at age 74, now will that change things? None of the
literature studies that we reviewed actually addressed that. Yet the popular literature
all focused on that, you know. A little bit of enthusiasm and then do these mind games. So
there is this disconnect between popular literature and some general ideas in public about
how this works versus what the literature is really telling us. There was no documented
association between mind games and improved everyday function, nor between mind games and
decreased risk of dementia. |