Outgoing Residents Avoid Dementia

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This was emailed to me from ALFA:

 

 

Another reason for activities directors to engage residents in social activities – a recent study finds that outgoing people are 50 percent less likely to develop dementia …

 

The latest issue of Prevention magazine reports on this recent study of more than 500 men and women age 78 and older from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. “Participants also described themselves as not easily stressed. Researchers speculate that their more resilient brains may be due to lower levels of cortisol – studies show that oversecretion of this ‘stress hormone’ can inhibit brain cells’ communication.”