“Do some cognitive functions improve with age?”

“Do some cognitive functions improve with age?,” by Erika Watts, Medical News Today

 

 

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“Scientists generally believe that cognitive functions, including attention, executive function, and reasoning skills, decline with age. A new study challenges this belief and suggests that orienting and executive functioning improve with age. Researchers suggest that training the brain may help improve cognitive function. … ‘These results are amazing and have important consequences for how we should view aging,’ says Dr. Ullman. ‘But the results from our large study indicate that critical elements of these abilities actually improve during aging, likely because we simply practice these skills throughout our life.’”

 

 

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

Did it really take medical research to discover that after making every imaginable mistake in youth, and often compounding them in middle age, we finally get a little better at stuff in the end?