Age-related social selectivity is a process in which older humans reduce their number of
social partners to a subset of positive and emotionally fulfilling relationships. Although …

Affordable and easy-to-administer interventions such as cognitive training, cognitively
stimulating everyday leisure activities, and non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, are …

Participating in a broad and balanced range of daily activities (ie, activity diversity) has been
associated with better cognitive functioning in later life. One possible explanation for this …

The engagement in cognitively stimulating activities has been found to be associated with
slower rates of cognitive decline in old age. In which type of activities people engage in may …

Growing evidence suggests that participation in enriching activities (physical, social, and
mental) across the life course is beneficial for cognitive functioning in older age. However …

Research with cognitive training for older adults has largely shown that benefits are confined
to the skills that are directly practiced with little or no generalization (or “transfer”) to other …

Considerable evidence suggests that language processing depends on memory processes,
which are vulnerable to declines with aging. Yet little is known about the effects of language …

Musical instrument training has been found to be associated with higher cognitive
performance in older age. However, it is not clear whether this association reflects a reduced …

Objectives Some research conceptualizes routineness of daily life as an indicator of
cognitive vulnerability that would lead to lower well-being in older age, whereas other …

In normal aging, the cognitive domain of semantic memory remains preserved, while the
domain of episodic memory declines to some extent. In Alzheimer's disease dementia, both …