This article for US health magazine New You was about the things that we do, or don’t do, with our brains in middle age and how that affects how our brains perform in later life. 

Although mentioning the risk of Alzheimers and the effects of dementia, the feature focuses on the more common problems of memory loss, struggling to recall facts and information (for example, ‘what did I come into this room for?) and our ability to learn. Although we might like to think our learning is over by the time we reach retirement, and it’s all about kicking back, the importance of picking things up comes sharply into focus when you think, for example, about the technology that’s emerged over the last twenty years, and the technology yet to emerge in the next twenty - and how much we might need to rely on it.

 

See how this piece came together from begining to end on my blog HERE.