{"id":2824,"date":"2024-08-14T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/finding-purpose-in-later-life-may-prevent-memory-loss-study-suggests\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T05:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:00:49","slug":"finding-purpose-in-later-life-may-prevent-memory-loss-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/finding-purpose-in-later-life-may-prevent-memory-loss-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding purpose in later life may prevent memory loss, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older people who feel their life still has purpose are less likely to get memory loss, a survey has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>More than 900 people were tracked for an average of 14 years in the US state of Illinois, to see whether they developed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>MCI is classed as the stage between an age-related decline in memory and thinking and a dementia diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Factors taken into account when assessing a feeling of purpose included relating positively to others, personal growth, self-acceptance, autonomy and mastery of one\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers found people who developed MCI showed a faster decline in psychological wellbeing than those who were \u201ccognitively intact\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Those that developed MCI were found to lack a purpose in life three years before diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, they had lower levels of personal growth six years before diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Some 29% of those taking part in the study were diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment.<\/p>\n<p>Among that group, 34% were also diagnosed with dementia.<\/p>\n<p>The research team said: \u201cPsychological wellbeing became significantly lower before MCI diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReduced psychological wellbeing may serve as a predictor for impaired cognitive function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPost-diagnostic psychological support should be planned for people diagnosed with dementing disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper is published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older people who feel their life still has purpose are less likely to get memory&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}