If it’s getting a little harder for you to open a jar these days, it’s not all in your head. Losing muscle strength is a natural sign of aging. However, researchers out of Edith Cowan University in Australia have found that declining grip strength may be a sign of late-life dementia in older women.
The study, which was published last month in the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, looked at the relationship between muscle function and dementia. Using data from the Perth Longitudinal Study of Ageing in Women, researchers examined more than 1,000 women with an average age of 75.
