A new study indicates that the elderly people with digital knowledge are greater It may be unlikely to suffer from poor perception With age. People have witnessed about 80 years of the exceptional height of personal technology throughout their lives: They were born years before colored TV They are advancing in the era of Tijook.
For years, scientists asked whether the presence of technology in daily life hurts or helps our minds as we get older. The study, published in the magazine “The nature of human behavior“It is the last to raise the balance towards the most positive category. In the investigation data, it was met 57 studies cover more than 411,000 adults over 50 years around the worldAll this with nervous diagnoses.
The elderly who used smartphones, computers or Internet while developing the study showed a decrease in the risk of cognitive weakness from those who have been far from devices, and the analysis appears. The relationship between the use of technology and brain health So or stronger than other factors It seems that it protects against dementia, Low blood pressureExercise, higher educational level and mentally stimulating hobbies.
Maximilian Haas, who runs a set of research on technology and cognitive function at Geneva University, announced “Euronews Health” that the results are “completely timely”, because countries around the world are advancing in old age. It should be noted that the conclusions of the new study may have been preserved when researchers took into account the aspects Such as the social and economic level, public healthY Social community around the personWhich can also improve brain health. The results coincide with the results of the study Posted by Haas last yearUnder any of the Swiss elderly who had better memory were more likely to use the Internet regularly.
For its part, Another analysis of 463,000 people in the United Kingdom He concluded that there is no “clear connection” between the use of the computer and the dementia, although there is a need for further research to detect The potential effect of increasing time in front of the screen In brain health. These studies prefer the idea that our digital life can enhance the most complex thought, social skills, relationships, and purely positive aspects of brain health.
These benefits, called “technological reserves”, often contradicts the theory of “digital dementia”, which says excessive dependence on technology Dreaming memory, attention and ability to solve problemsEspecially between the smallest. But in reality, “exposure to screens has positive and negative aspects,” says Haas, who adds that the key is in moderation. Regarding the cognitive function, “What makes the difference very little or more.”
