AGE AND COGNITIVE CAPACITY —

DO WE NECESSARILY GET MORE STUPID AS WE AGE?

NO!

Age is just a number. Although it often corresponds to deteriorating mental and physical circumstances, the age number is NOT the cause.

Physically, wear and tear are the principal causes of increasing difficulty. Consider professional athletes. Basketball players in their forties and fifties whose knees are so bad they can’t go up and down stairs.

Eighty year old people may suffer the same condition for the same cause — wear and tear, but the medical…