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Books on issues of ageing
George Vaillant: Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark
Harvard Study of Adult Development, 2002
| Lawrence Whalley: The Aging Brain , professor of mental health at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
September, 2001, Columbia University Press |
Why do some people remain alert and vigorous at an age when
others are declining mentally and physically?
Brain-stimulating activities such as newspaper-reading, card games, puzzles and draughts.
These had been shown in "the best study of the problem so far" to lower the risk of dementia. In urging this, Prof Whalley
was challenging the widespread conventional wisdom that intelligence - as in the case of the novelist Iris Murdoch - and use
of the mind are no protection against Alzheimer's. He declared: "The greater the mental activity at the beginning of the study,
the lower the risk of dementia." |
Aging & Mental Health - Editors:
Martin W. Orrell, University College London, UK and Dan G. Blazer, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
Alan Walker Speaking for Themselves: the new politics
of old age in Europe
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