Older U.S. adults and their families have reason to consider space and place for optimizing older adults' short term memory and attentional needs.
Neighborhood disadvantage, cognitive function, and brain health are important in the study of older adults.More disadvantaged neighborhoods were associated with poorer working memory performance.We all live somewhere. For the people of the world, where we have to or choose to live is impacted by many factors. Not all geographic locations or neighborhoods are equally resourced.
Older adults and their families should be attentive to the multiple factors that can be used to determine a neighborhood's level of deprivation. Area deprivation may relate to stress and to attentional distraction, which have implications for a healthy hippocampus and optimal mental focus. Regina S. Wright, Alexa C. Allan, Alyssa A. Gamaldo, Adrienne A. Morgan, Anna K. Lee, Guray Erus, Christos Davatzikos & Desirée C. Bygrave : Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with working memory and hippocampal volumes among older adults,, is full Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Winston-Salem State University.
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