An active and socially integrated lifestyle in late life might protect against dementia.

By Laura Fratiglioni, Stéphanie Paillard-Borg, Bengt Winblad. Lancet Neurology, 2004

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Subfields: Health, Psychiatry and Mental health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Brain metabolism in health, aging, and neurodegeneration (2017, positive): “In animal studies, environmental enrichment enhances cognitive performance by promoting neurotrophin production, synaptogenesis, dendrite formation, and arborization (van Praag et al, 2000; Fratiglioni et al, 2004).”
The impact of social activities, social networks, social support and social relationships on the cognitive functioning of healthy older adults: a systematic review (2017, background): “In addition, social factors tend to be considered alongside or as part of other lifestyle factors such as leisure or intellectual activity [41]; outcomes such as mortality, physical health, or dementia are included in lieu of cognitive function [10, 18]; only specific aspects of social relationships”
Loneliness, social support networks, mood and wellbeing in community‐dwelling elderly (2009, background): “There is now clear evidence for the healthpromoting effects of social relationships (Fratiglioni et al., 2004), with socially isolated people having a”
Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline (2005, background): “In this respect, our study builds on the psychological literature on the relation between cognitive decline and intellectual challenge (cf. Fratiglioni, et al., 2004).”
Are there bilingual advantages on nonlinguistic interference tasks? Implications for the plasticity of executive control processes (2011, background): “According to this hypothesis, a wide variety of specific lifestyle factors have pervasive beneficial effects on cognitive functioning well into old age ( Fratiglioni, Paillard-Borg, & Winblad, 2004 ).”
Epidemiology of Alzheimer Disease (2012, positive): “Having an extensive social network was protective for the development of dementia (Fratiglioni et al. 2004), and engagement in mental, social, and other productive activities was associated with decreased risk of incident dementia (Wang et al. 2002).”