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The Times: Children who do puzzles ‘reduce risk of dementia in later life’
The Times: Children who do puzzles ‘reduce risk of dementia in later life’

Reading fairy tales and solving puzzles with your children could reduce their risk of developing dementia in later life, it has been claimed.

The suggestion came after research found that eight-year-olds with strong problem-solving skills retained them in old age.

Scientists studied 502 Britons born in the same week in March 1946 who took thinking and memory tests at eight and again between the ages of 69 and 71. They found that “childhood cognitive ability was strongly associated with cognitive scores . . . more than 60 years later”.

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Family, Education, Health, Science, Reading, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationChildren, puzzles, reduce dementia risk, dementia, fairy tales, problem-solving skills, children, University of Oxford, The Times, media article, memory tests, memoryComment