A Thinking Job May Help Your Brain Function Well After Retiremen

June 1, 2015

Research Fact

A Thinking Job May Help Your Brain Function Well After Retirement

Reseach Finding

People whose jobs require more activities such as analyzing data, making decisions, solving problems, and thinking creatively are more likely to exhibit better memory during their working years and experience less-steep declines in memory and cognitive function post-retirement .
Although the effects were relatively small, the findings suggest that it may be beneficial for people to choose jobs that require a variety of mental processes or are more cognitively complex, the researchers say.

Source : according to a study of more than 4,000 Americans by Gwenith G. Fisher of Colorado State University and five colleagues & HBR .