Re: Staving off brain decay

Dave Smith wrote:

"As you get older, perhaps it's particularly hard to acquire new skills

as distinct from practising old ones. "

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New skills are acquired more slowly in older folk than in yoinger folk,
but they can be acquired. There is a PhD student I know working on a
dissertation about old folk (well really old women) who had never used
computers before retirement but who now use them on a regular basis. It
seems that computer use is a skill that can really help older people
keep in contact with the world, and so keep mentally active and
interested.

Lance

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