Working Later in Life May Facilitate Neural Health

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quilting
glenda johnstone

4/27/2011 5:45:21 PM

 I read the article and am interested in quilting as cognitive protection in the long term. People who quilt on a regular basis. Most quilts offer some challange the more complex the more challanging.

We are fourtunate than last genration
Ramesh Raghuvanshi

7/23/2009 11:24:27 PM

 We old people are more lucky thanprivious genration old because we are getting more instrument and other failities to learn new tools,new challanges. so lifespan of this age old people is increasing.

Work later in life
Michael Johnstone

3/2/2009 12:05:19 PM

 At 58 I became an amateur student of Neuroscience. Now 3 years later after adding books on Da Vinci, Jung and the I-Ching, etc. that study is paying off. I run a consulting firm in Forensic Architecture, based on 30 years of practicing that profession. Although short term memory is a thing of the past, I believe my cognitive skills have never been better and my grasp of the significance individual actions in the greater picture is more keen and meaningful.

Working Later in Life
Donna Allen

12/30/2008 7:52:24 AM

 Your email and foundation information came to me through a friend. I'm quickly approaching 60 years of age and appreciate this information on brain health very much. I want to remain vital and healthy...until I'm ready to pass on!

Post-retirement work & brain health
Ronald Brill

12/6/2008 12:02:51 PM

Obviously, whether it is out of economic necessity or brain health, more seniors are seeking not just to continue work, but to find "meaningful work." This is different than working for low wages at retailers. I teach a workshop for seniors on "Coping with Aging & Retirement Stress." The seniors I work with (already in late 60s and early 70s-80s) want challenging types of work. Many have high skills or management experience, but are frustrated that in retirement communities particularly, "make-work" jobs offer little challenge to cognitive skills and judgment.

Even public agencies specializing in aging populations fail to realize that the challenges of even part-time, problem-solving work more fully utilize their experience and stimulate creative neural capabilities rarely used to their fullest in later life. Dana Foundation is in a perfect position to help fund a program focusing on developing part-time senior workforce job/project matching systems that our public aging agencies seem to overlook or ignore.