The New York Times (11/3, Bakalar) reports investigators “found no association between engagement in leisure activities at age 56 and the incidence of dementia over the following 18 years.” They arrived at that conclusion after studying “8,280 people, average age 56, who were free of dementia at the start of the analysis,” tracking “their involvement in 13 leisure activities – listening to music, gardening, attending cultural events, playing cards, using a home computer and others,” and then controlling for confounding factors. The findings were published online in the journal Neurology.
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— “Pursuing Leisure Activities May Not Protect Against Dementia “Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times, November 3, 2020