Beyond “use it or lose it”: The impact of engagement on cognitive aging

EAL Stine-Morrow, IE Manavbasi - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Biologically based senescence processes and cumulative opportunities for experience
collectively give rise to profound changes in cognition in later adulthood, the trajectories of …

Caregiving, volunteering, and loneliness in middle-aged and older adults: a systematic review

SC Akhter-Khan, V Hofmann, M Warncke… - Aging & mental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Older adults contribute vast amounts of care to society, yet it remains unclear how
unpaid productive activities relate to loneliness. The objective of this systematic review is to …

Associations of loneliness with risk of Alzheimer's disease dementia in the Framingham Heart Study

SC Akhter‐Khan, Q Tao, TFA Ang… - Alzheimer's & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The relationship between persistent loneliness and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is
unclear. We examined the relationship between different types of mid‐life loneliness and the …

From urban neighbourhood environments to cognitive health: a cross-sectional analysis of the role of physical activity and sedentary behaviours

E Cerin, A Barnett, JE Shaw, E Martino, LD Knibbs… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background There is a dearth of studies on the effects of the neighbourhood environment on
adults' cognitive function. We examined how interrelated aspects of the built and natural …

Switching it up: Activity diversity and cognitive functioning in later life.

CJ Brown, S Jeon, YT Ng, S Lee… - Psychology and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

A decade later on how to “use it” so we don't “lose it”: An update on the unanswered questions about the influence of activity participation on cognitive performance in …

AAM Bielak, AJ Gow - Gerontology, 2023 - karger.com
Activity engagement is a modifiable factor that has been widely-cited as being good for the
aging brain and cognition and represents a valuable target for reducing dementia risk …

Diversity of daily activities is associated with greater hippocampal volume

EJ Urban-Wojcik, S Lee, DW Grupe, L Quinlan… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2022 - Springer
Greater engagement in a range of daily activities is associated with better cognitive
functioning (Lee et al., Lee et al., 2020). The hippocampus, a subcortical brain structure …

Variety and duration of different sedentary behaviors, inflammation, genetic susceptibility, and new-onset dementia in the older population

S Yang, Z Ye, M Liu, Y Zhang, X Gan, Q Wu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - jamda.com
Objectives We aimed to evaluate the relationship of the variety and duration of different
sedentary behaviors (TV-watching, driving, and nonoccupational computer use) with the risk …

Capturing hassles and uplifts in adolescents' daily lives: Links with physical and mental well-being

H Zheng, EM Cooke, K Li, Y Zheng - Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2023 - Springer
Despite the salient impacts of daily experiences, scarce research has measured various
daily minor experiences and evaluated their influences on adolescent well-being in their …

Multidimensional assessment of subjective well-being and risk of dementia: Findings from the UK Biobank study

X Zhu, M Luchetti, D Aschwanden, AA Sesker… - Journal of happiness …, 2023 - Springer
This study aimed to examine the associations between subjective well-being (SWB) and risk
of all-cause dementia, Alzheimer's disease (AD), and vascular dementia (VD). We adopted a …