Cognitive Decline can be Delayed by Postponing Retirement

Cognitive decline especially those caused by Alzheimer’s disease may be slowed down by participating in the labor market until the age of 67 as per a study at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, published in the journal SSM Population Health.

The study thereby states that postponing retirement is a protective mechanism against cognitive decline, regardless of gender and educational or occupational attainment. Similar data was also supported by another study from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study.

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‘Cognitive decline especially those caused by Alzheimer’s disease may be slowed down by participating in the labor market until the age of 67 years. ’

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The study team analyzed data of more than 20,000 US-Americans between the ages of 55 to 75 years from the Health and Retirement Study. These participants had taken part in the labor market at some point between 1996 and 2014.

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“In this study, we approach retirement and cognitive function from the perspective that they both come near the end of a long path of life. It begins with one's social origins in ethnicity, gender, and early-life social and economic status, goes on with educational and occupational attainment and health behaviors, and goes all the way up to more proximate factors such as partnership status and mental and physical health. All these kinds of factors accumulate and interact over a lifetime to affect both cognitive function and age at retirement”, says Angelo Lorenti, affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock, Germany.

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The study had investigated how social and labor market dynamics are associated with demographic change. Several countries have enacted policies to increase the statutory retirement age.

This brings on a need to understand the relevance between retiring at older ages and it may have health consequences, especially the cognitive functions.

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“Our study suggests that there may be a fortuitous unintended consequence of postponed retirement”, says Lorenti.

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