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Mental health
fromFast Company
1 day ago

Gen Z reports early cognitive decline. Here's what to know about the brain rot epidemic-and what to do about it

Self-reported cognitive disability increased sharply among adults ages 18–34, but it does not diagnose dementia or cognitive impairment.
Mental health
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

I'm in my 50s, and my brain fog scares me. Now I'm doing everything I can to give my memory a boost.

Cognitive concerns from memory lapses prompted adoption of multiple mentally stimulating activities including comedy, drum lessons, and tap classes to maintain brain sharpness with age.
Music
fromThe Atlantic
4 months ago

An Idiosyncratic Christmas Playlist

Nostalgia shifts with age; musical comforts move from childhood-era songs to the music of one's adolescence and early adulthood.
Philosophy
fromAeon
4 months ago

A millennial and her centenarian friend take a unique road trip | Aeon Videos

An intergenerational friendship between a young animator and a centenarian becomes a warm, imaginative portrait blending visits and felt animation exploring age, memory, and joy.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Aging and Remembering the Gist of What Happens

Memory separates continuous experience into segments, and gist versus detailed memory rely on different systems, with gist reliance increasing with age.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months ago

A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 and retired happily at 100

Betty Reid Soskin was 92 when she first went viral and became, in effect, a rock star of the National Park Service. She was the oldest full-time national park ranger in the US this was back in 2013; she'd become a ranger at 85 but she had been furloughed along with 800,000 other federal employees during the government shutdown. News channels flocked to interview her. She was aggrieved not to be working, she told them; she had a job to do.
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