Protective effect of bilingualism on aging, MCI, and dementia: A community-based study

DISCUSSION: The current study provides significant support for the protective effect of bilingualism on cognitive impairment in an urban community with extensive bilingual interactional contexts in everyday life.HIGHLIGHTS: Bilingualism has been demonstrated to protect against dementia and mild cognitive impairment in a linguistically diverse community with extensive code-switching contexts. Bilingual older individuals had superior baseline cognitive performance compared to monolingual older individuals. Bilingualism was found to have an independent effect on general cognition after adjusting for major social determinants of health in the group without cognitive impairment.PMID:38376105 | DOI:10.1002/alz.13702

Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association - February 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Aparna Venugopal Avanthi Paplikar Feba Anna Varghese Nithin Thanissery Divya Ballal Rakshith Maneshwar Hoskeri Revathi Shekar Binukumar Bhaskarapillai Faheem Arshad Vandana Valiyaparambath Purushothaman Aravind Banavaram Anniappan Girish Nagaraja Rao Suva Source Type: research