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By Holly Williams
Times Newspapers Writer
Just a few years ago, it was commonly believed that growing older meant losing intellectual capacity and the ability to learn new skills and facts.
But new research exists on intellectual decline and how to prevent it. And it is the same advice:
Use it or lose it.
Dr. Warner Schaie, a psychologist at Penn State University, has studied mental decline in older people for 35 years. His most recent study of 5,000 people, reported in the April issue of The American Psychologist, finds that while small memory losses are common, they are not inevitable. Schaie has demonstrated that it is possible to reverse or slow mental decline by teaching skills, then testing to see if the skills were learned.
Schaie’s research and a study of 1,300 men and women by Dr. Jack Rowe of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York found that older people who stay mentally sharp share these
93.3%