The Impact of Retirement on Cognitive Reserve

Cognitive reserve refers to a theory that we develop a kind of storehouse of thinking abilities depending on the tasks we give ourselves throughout our lives. The more cognitive reserve a person has, the better they can cope with changes to the brain that happen later in life. Social security policies are what allowed sergio to study the effect of retirement on cognitive decline. And what do you find? When a person was asked to remember a sequence of ten words, sergio found that, on average, they remembered one word less after retirement.