{"id":22742,"date":"2018-12-14T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lancashirecarelibraryblog.com\/?p=22742"},"modified":"2018-12-14T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:00:29","slug":"intellectual-engagement-and-cognitive-ability-in-later-life-the-use-it-or-lose-it-conjecture-longitudinal-prospective-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2018\/12\/14\/intellectual-engagement-and-cognitive-ability-in-later-life-the-use-it-or-lose-it-conjecture-longitudinal-prospective-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual engagement and cognitive ability in later life (the \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d conjecture): longitudinal, prospective study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BMJ 2018;363:k4925<\/strong><br \/>\nThis longitudinal, prospective, observational study aims to examine the association between intellectual engagement and cognitive ability in later life, and determine whether the maintenance of intellectual engagement will offset age related cognitive decline.\u00a0 The study concludes that self reported engagement is not associated with the trajectory of cognitive decline in late life, but is associated with the acquisition of ability during the life course. Overall, findings suggest that high performing adults engage and those that engage more being protected from relative decline.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/363\/bmj.k4925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here <\/a>to view the full paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMJ 2018;363:k4925 This longitudinal, prospective, observational study aims to examine the association between intellectual engagement and cognitive ability in later life, and determine whether the maintenance of intellectual engagement will offset age related cognitive decline.\u00a0 The study concludes that self reported engagement is not associated with the trajectory of cognitive decline in late life, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2018\/12\/14\/intellectual-engagement-and-cognitive-ability-in-later-life-the-use-it-or-lose-it-conjecture-longitudinal-prospective-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intellectual engagement and cognitive ability in later life (the \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d conjecture): longitudinal, prospective study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[223],"tags":[467,992,1402],"class_list":["post-22742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-aging","tag-brain-training","tag-cognition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}