Dementia: Ways to ‘build reserves of healthy brain cells’ and improve cognition
The charity elaborated: “Cognitive reserve is a person’s ability to cope with disease in their brain. It is built up by keeping the brain active over a person’s lifetime.
“The more cognitive reserve a person has, the longer it takes for any diseases in their brain to cause problems with everyday tasks.”
Factors that may lead to a smaller cognitive reserve include:
- Leaving education early
- Less job complexity
- Social isolation.
Expanding on job complexity, mental skills that can help to build cognitive reserve would involve memory, reasoning, problem-solving, communication, and organisational skills.
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