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People's cognitive abilities continue to weaken with age, and it is easier to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease in old age. In order to avoid "Alzheimer's disease", the usual media reports mostly suggest strengthening physical exercise, accepting new things and lifelong learning.
Previous research has shown that the connection between humans and animals may have health benefits, such as lowering blood pressure and stress. Paipai previously reported on a study by researchers at the National University of Tsukuba in Japan published in the journal PLOS ONE: Older people who own dogs are at lower risk of disability.
Perhaps scientists have been busy studying humans and animals recently, and another research team led by Tiffany Braley, MD of the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor Medical Center and academician of the American Academy of Sciences, has added new evidence to the health benefits of pet ownership: pet ownership can also prevent cognitive decline! The study was presented at the 74th annual meeting of the American Society of Neurology and published in the journal ScienceDaily.
The study looked at cognitive data from 1,369 older adults with an average age of 65 who had normal cognitive skills at the start of the study. A total of 53% own a pet and 32% are long-term pet owners, defined as people who have owned a pet for five years or more. Of the study participants, 88 percent were white, 7 percent were black, 2 percent were Hispanic, and 3 percent were other races.
In the study, people underwent multiple cognitive tests. The researchers used these cognitive tests to develop a comprehensive cognitive score for each person, ranging from 0 to 27. Composite scores include common tests for subtraction, number counting, and word recall. The researchers then used the participants' combined cognitive scores and estimated the association between pet age and cognitive function.
For six years, pet owners' cognitive scores declined more slowly. This difference is most pronounced among long-term pet owners. Taking into account other factors known to affect cognitive function, the study showed that long-term pet owners scored an average of 1.2 points higher on cognitive synthesis at six years compared to non-pet owners. The researchers also found that the cognitive benefits associated with long-term pet ownership were stronger for black adults, college-educated adult men.
Study author Braley said: "Since stress can negatively affect cognitive function, the potential stress buffering effect of owning a pet may provide a valid justification for our findings." ”
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Keeping pets at home for the elderly can be used as spiritual sustenance and companionship, while also increasing physical activity, which is also beneficial to the cognitive ability and physical health of the elderly.
Paipai suggests that when there are elderly people in the family who feel lonely and lack physical exercise, it is also a good choice to have a pet (if the elderly in the family do not resist).
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