Marriage Against Dementia

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Could marriage be good for health? What are the benefits of being married?

A study revealed that couples who are married or living together -because for the terms of a study they share many characteristics- are less likely to suffer from dementia. That is, the marriage bond has been linked to a lower rate of dementia.

What specifically did the study find? CNN reports that an article about research published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, exposes that people who have been single for life could be 42 percent more likely to have dementia than those who are married.

And what about the person who loses his partner, the widowers? They could be 20 percent at risk. But, what does this study attribute to the fact that couples living together or under the marital bond free themselves a bit from these statistics?

The psychiatrist Andrew Sommerlard of University College of London, who led the research, stated that “the possible protective effect is related to various lifestyle factors known to accompany marriage, such as [living] healthier and have more social stimulation as a result of living with a spouse."

To reach these conclusions, the group of professionals investigated 15 already published studies. The sample included 812,047 people from the United States, Asia, and Europe; a study from Brazil, exposes CNN. It should be noted that during the investigation, they found that the risk of dementia in singles changed in recent years. The good news is that the risk was reduced a bit. Why should we pay attention to this study? The World Health Organization records at least 47 million people with dementia. One of the most common is Alzheimer's; It could cover 70 percent of the cases, reports CNN.