In an analysis of more than 8000 retirees in Europe, it was discovered that people’s verbal memory, the ability to remember a set of words after some time, in general, deteriorated more quickly after retirement, compared to when they worked. However, another study, conducted in England, showed that other capacities, such as abstract reasoning, are not affected.
“There are some indications that retirement could be bad for cognition, because when you retire, your brain no longer faces so many challenges,” he said Guglielmo WeberProfessor of Econometry of the University of PaduaItaly, who worked in the European study, to The New York Times. These investigations have also discovered a relationship between retirement and the appearance of the depression.
“Suddenly moving from a busy working life to lack of activity can exacerbate feelings of uselessness, under mood, sadness, as well as serious depressive symptoms and memory loss,” he explained XI Chen, Associate Professor of Public Health of the Yale University, Who studies aging and clarified: “The nature of your work – and the way you see that work – seems to affect the risk of deterioration. For example, researchers believe that those who used to work in greater rank jobs can show a more marked deterioration than other people.”
“The study in Europe also discovered that the people who stopped working before the standard retirement age of the place where they lived showed a lower deterioration than those who stopped working later,” Weber said and considered: “This could be due to the fact that the work of those who retired before could not have been so demanding for their mind, which resulted in a more gradual deterioration after retirement.”
In the New York medium report, Emily FieslerWeill Cornell Medicine’s attached professor specialized in geriatric care, said: “People who are forced to retire” due to health problems or a clear age “, or who face economic difficulties during retirement, can experience more serious effects” and said: “Women could be less likely to experience a pronounced mental or cognitive deterioration socializing and spending time with the family after retirement. ”
Specialists agree that the ideal would be to incorporate new routines that are mentally and physically attractive since a couple of years before stopping. Alison MooreChief of the Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care of the University of California in San Diegohe warned: “Although you do not implement them immediately, you should do the plan in advance. Postpone those decisions until after having retired more difficult to launch. The goal is to move from one type of daily life to another.”
“Voluntary work, in particular, can serve,” Chen said. According to Yale’s graduate, investigations have discovered that people who volunteer regularly during retirement have slower biological aging rates, and can avoid cognitive deterioration by staying active and participatory.
To avoid depression and cognitive deterioration that can accompany social isolation, it is recommended that retirees replace socialization at work with routine or virtual meetings. In addition, as one ages, regular exercise is essential for brain health, so you could also consider the possibility of testing a new type of physical conditioning class.
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