Whether or not you can read and write could be a factor in your ability to stave off dementia as you grow older, according to a new study
They published their results Wednesday in the online issue of the journal Neurology.Researchers studied 983 adults over age 65 living in New York City's Washington Heights area who had four or less years of schooling.Visiting the participants' homes, the scientists performed tests of the memory, language and visual or spatial abilities. During those visits, they made dementia diagnoses based on the standard criteria.The illiterate participants performed worse on those tests.
While it's long been known that educational attainment can be tied to better health outcomes, a major goal of the study was to determine how literacy can or cannot correlate with someone's ability to maintain brain health during their golden years.For instance, many of the illiterate adults in Washington Heights came from the Dominican Republic, she said, and may have had to drop out of school to work.
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