It has long been suspected that those who remain mentally active later in life may be able to postpone or lessen the effects of Alzheimer’s. While that notion has spawned a whole industry devoted to brain fitness, it turns out that simply working later in life might be that ticket to warding off the effects of the debilitating disease.
That fact came as a result of the research of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. Experts took a look at more than thousand three hundred and twenty dementia patients, approximately 30 percentages of them men.
Those who retired later in life developed Alzheimer’s at a later stage. As a simple association, for each additional year of employment there was about a six week later age of onset of the disease.
