Maximizing your 401(k), and is retirement bad for your brain?
Maximizing your 401(k), and is retirement bad for your brain?
- May 16, 2026
- Research by UCI economists Noah Arman Kouchekinia and David Neumark, and Tim A. Bruckner, public health, featured by Motley Fool
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This brings us to our next item, which is a study from the University of California, Irvine entitled, "Does employment slow cognitive decline?" The answer is, yes, the study … found that, "correlational evidence suggests that leaving the workforce before retirement age could accelerate the pace of cognitive decline" and that, "employment near retirement age appears to reduce the risk of cognitive decline, which can in turn forestall the onset of dementia." The effects are particularly concentrated among men ages 51-64.
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