USA Today (5/3, Hassanein) reports, “Among 18,000 older adults studied, those who regularly used the internet had about half the risk of developing dementia compared with those who didn’t regularly use it…[an] analysis…in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found.”
CNN (5/3, Christensen) reports, “The researchers saw this association after about eight years tracking 18,154 adults between the ages of 50 and 65 who did not have dementia when the study period began.” Participants “were a part of the Health and Retirement Study, a multidisciplinary collection of data from a representative sample of people in the U.S. that is gathered by the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration.”
Related Links:
— “Could regular internet use lower risk of dementia? New study suggests yes. “Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, May 3, 2023