If you want to keep a sharp mind well into your golden years, you should consider a life full of partying! Well, not like Keith Richards, though he has managed to survive all manner of late night, um, socializing.
Believe it or not, researchers think that you should make ample time for social events. That’s because their findings show that socially active people, who are not easily stressed, have a 50 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared with men and women who were isolated and prone to distress. The report was published in the journal Neurology.
“Our findings suggest that having a calm and outgoing personality in combination with a socially active lifestyle may decrease the risk of developing dementia even further,” says Hui-Xin Wang of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Researchers believe that the number of people with dementia may quadruple by 2040. If that isn’t a call to get out and party, I don’t know what is.
