Participating in stimulating activities can help slow down cognitive decline and improve overall quality of life. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia. It’s characterized by ...

Social activities such as interactions with others and participation in organised events can prevent cognitive decline in long-term care facility. Research from Amsterdam UMC, carried out among ...

Cognitive skills and experiences like classroom-based play in kindergarten lead to participation in extracurricular activities in 8th grade among children growing up in poverty, finds a new study.

Evidence suggests that engaging in social activity is associated with a number of positive outcomes for cognitive health. Participating in social activities can help to lower stress levels ...

The study concluded that early retirement’s negative influence on mental fitness activities as well as social engagement outweighed the protective benefit on health behaviors.

Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is a short-term, evidence-based, group or individual intervention program for people with mild to moderate dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of CST is ...

A new study shows that leisure activities, including mental, physical and social engagements, may play a significant role in easing loneliness and the cognitive decline that can come with it.

Some 2.3 million of U.S. adults over 65 – more than 4% – have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in. And whether ...

Previous research has shown that social engagement, or lack of social isolation, is key to preserving brain health in older age. However, this study’s results did not find that social activities ...

Social engagement activities and continuous learning practices further complement these physical interventions by providing cognitive stimulation and ... social engagement, and cognitive stimulation.

With this information, the study suggests that an increase in social activities could lower the risk of dementia by 38 percent and could lower the risk of other mild cognitive impairments by about 21 ...