Executive summary Acting now on dementia prevention, intervention, and care will vastly
improve living and dying for individuals with dementia and their families, and in doing so …

Background: The prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia is expected to increase
dramatically as the population ages, creating burdens on families and health care systems …

Research on cognitive aging has focused on how decline in various cortical and
hippocampal regions influence cognition. However, brainstem regions play essential …

There is an urgent need to identify lifestyle activities that reduce functional decline and
dementia associated with population aging. The goals of this article are to review critically …

Background Cognitive stimulation (CS) is an intervention for people with dementia offering a
range of enjoyable activities providing general stimulation for thinking, concentration and …

This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the impact of cognitive training and
general mental stimulation on the cognitive and everyday functioning of older adults without …

Background Volunteering has been advocated by the United Nations, and American and
European governments as a way to engage people in their local communities and improve …

A decade has passed since we published a comprehensive review in this journal
addressing the topic of promoting successful cognitive aging, making this a good time to …

In the research reported here, we tested the hypothesis that sustained engagement in
learning new skills that activated working memory, episodic memory, and reasoning over a …

We examined the association of social activity with cognitive decline in 1138 persons
without dementia at baseline with a mean age of 79.6 (SD= 7.5) who were followed for up to …