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Alice Carnevali

Want to keep your brain sharp in old age? Helping others might be the key

“What goes around comes around” may be just an expression, but helping others could have significant benefits for our brains as we age, a new study has found.

Middle-aged and older adults who regularly help people they do not live with experience considerably slower cognitive decline than those who do not help others, according to the study, which was published in the journal Social Science and Medicine.

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