Older people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are more likely to recover their function if they feel good about aging, compared to those who have negative emotions about it, a new study from the Yale School of Public Health says.
\nMCI is a common form of memory loss. Positive beliefs about aging give older people a 30% better chance of recovering normal thinking.
\n\u201cResearchers also found that these positive beliefs also enabled participants to recover their cognition up to two years earlier than those with negative age beliefs,”. \u201cThis cognitive recovery advantage was found regardless of baseline MCI severity.\u201d
\nMore than 1,700 people over age 65 participated in the study, which was published in\u00a0international medical journal.
\n\u201cIn previous experimental studies with older persons, positive age beliefs reduced stress caused by cognitive challenges, increased self-confidence about cognition, and improved cognitive performance,\u201d study authors wrote. \u201cWe therefore hypothesized that older persons with positive age beliefs would be more likely to recover from MCI and would do so sooner compared with individuals with negative age beliefs.\u201d
\nBecca Levy, professor of public health and psychology and lead author of the study said that, \u201cMost people assume there is no recovery from MCI, but in fact half of those who have it do recover. Little is known about why some recover while others don\u2019t. That\u2019s why we looked at positive age beliefs, to see if they would help provide an answer.\u201d
\n\u201cOlder persons in the positive age-belief group who started the study with normal cognition were less likely to develop MCI over the next 12 years than those in the negative age-belief group, regardless of their baseline age and physical health,\u201dan international medical news journal reported.
\n\u201cConsidering that positive age beliefs can be strengthened, our findings suggest that age-belief interventions at individual and societal levels could increase the number of people who experience cognitive recovery,\u201d the study said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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