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Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
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People in routine and repetitive jobs found to have 31% greater risk of disease in later life, and 66% higher risk of mild cognitive problems

If work is a constant flurry of mind-straining challenges, bursts of creativity and delicate negotiations to keep the troops happy, consider yourself lucky.

Researchers have found that the more people use their brains at work, the better they seem to be protected against thinking and memory problems that come with older age.

In a study of more than 7,000 Norwegians in 305 occupations, those who held the least mentally demanding jobs had a 66% greater risk of mild cognitive impairment, and a 31% greater risk of dementia, after the age of 70 compared with those in the most mentally taxing roles.

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[โ€“] snooggums@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Accomplishing things each day is good, but most of those things aren't work.

[โ€“] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

I still consider many of these things as work, where I need to put efforts in these things, unlike leisure activities such as watching a movie or playing a video game.

But I get what you are saying.