“Brain function of older adults catching up with younger generations, finds study”

“Brain function of older adults catching up with younger generations, finds study,” MedicalXPress

“According to research by Nottingham Trent University, the brain function of older generations is improving, with the gap between old and young healthy adults lessening. … The evidence points overall to improving and higher cognitive performance among older adults with eighty three of the measures used (68%) across the studies showing better performance in later cohorts of older adults than earlier cohorts, only six (5%) showed the reverse. In contrast, findings show that that young adults’ cognition remained relatively flat across time—closing the gap between generations.”

 

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

The old are getting smarter and the young, not so much. Two current presidential candidates were not part of the sample. I wonder if campus rioters were.