{"id":35760,"date":"2025-08-17T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=35760"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:53:20","slug":"digital-dementia-is-page-xviii-limitless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/digital-dementia-is-page-xviii-limitless\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Dementia is Page XViii, Limitless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So many segments of the population are in decline. Our smart phones are breaking our brains. Jim quick speaks to a condition called digital by examining how EQ drops we can determine that failure to publish webpages and looking at too many videos in an attention deficit distracted manner causes what to happen.<\/div>\n
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 are in decline. Our smart phones are breaking our brains. Jim quick speaks to a condition called digital by examining how EQ drops we can determine that failure to publish webpages and looking at too many videos in a attention deficit distracted manner causes what to happen.<\/div>\n
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Digital dementia. Here\u2019s a study that explores digital dementia correlated to aging. <\/div>\n
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 In the latest evidence that meaningful social connections bolster health, a team from The University of Texas at Austin and University of Massachusetts Boston has found that frequent helping outside the home significantly slows cognitive decline in middle-age and older adults.<\/div>\n
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The new study of more than 30,000 adults in the U.S. looking at individuals over two decades found that the rate of cognitive decline associated with aging fell by 15%-20% for people who formally volunteer their services or who help in more informal ways with neighbors, family or friends outside the home on a regular basis. This cognitive benefit was consistently observed when individuals devoted about two to four hours per week to helping others. The results were reported in the latest edition of the journal Social Science & Medicine and were based on a study funded by the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.<\/div>\n
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\u201cEveryday acts of support \u2014 whether organized or personal \u2014 can have lasting cognitive impact,\u201d said Sae Hwang Han, an assistant professor of human development and family sciences at UT who led the study. \u201cWhat stood out to me was that the cognitive benefits of helping others weren\u2019t just short-term boosts but cumulative over time with sustained engagement, and these benefits were evident for both formal volunteering and informal helping. And in addition to that, moderate engagement of just two to four hours was consistently linked to robust benefits.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The study is one of the first to look simultaneously at the impact of volunteering in the formal sense and more informal types of helping, such as assisting neighbors, relatives or friends in need with things like getting to a health appointment, caring for children, lawn work or preparing taxes. While about 1 in 3 older Americans are reported to engage in scheduled or formal volunteering, more than half manage to help other people in their lives regularly in this more informal way.<\/div>\n
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\u201cInformal helping is sometimes assumed to offer fewer health benefits due to its lack of social recognition,\u201d Han said. But in fact, \u201cIt was a pleasant surprise to find that it provides cognitive benefits comparable to formal volunteering.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The researchers used longitudinal data from the national Health and Retirement Study, examining results from a representative sample of U.S. residents over the age of 51 dating back to 1998. The new study, which controlled for other contributing factors in volunteerism and helping behaviors such as wealth, physical and mental health, and education, found that age-related cognitive decline slowed as people began and sustained helping behaviors. That data suggests that greater gains may be expected in people who make helping behaviors a part of their routine, year over year.<\/div>\n
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\u201cConversely, our data show that completely withdrawing from helping is associated with worse cognitive function,\u201d Han said. \u201cThis suggests the importance of keeping older adults engaged in some form of helping for as long as possible, with appropriate supports and accommodations in place.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The paper offers the latest case for bringing a public health lens to discussions about volunteerism, helping and strengthening neighborhood relations, particularly in later life when diseases associated with cognitive decline and impairment, like Alzheimer\u2019s, tend to set in.<\/div>\n
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Another recent study, also led by Han, found that volunteering buffered the adverse effects of chronic stress on systemic inflammation \u2014 a known biological pathway linked to cognitive decline and dementia. The effect was especially pronounced among people with higher levels of inflammation.<\/div>\n
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Together, the two studies\u2019 findings suggest that helping behaviors can help boost brain health, whether by reducing the physiological wear and tear associated with stress or by fortifying social connections that bring psychological, emotional and cognitive benefits of their own. In the context of an aging society and increasing concerns about loneliness and isolation, the findings also provide an important basis for continuing to involve people in opportunities to help, even once cognitive decline has set in.<\/div>\n
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\u201cMany older adults in suboptimal health often continue to make valuable contributions to those around them,\u201d Han said, \u201cand they also may be the ones to especially benefit from being provided with opportunities to help.\u201d<\/div>\n
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