shootingstar
04-04-2009, 05:49 PM
Keeping brain intellectually stimulated can delay dementia, etc.
If you are biliingual and use 2 (or more) languages that helps too. As shown by a medical study on elderly patients in Canada. Study showed delay of dementia /memory loss by 4 years for bilingual people.
Baycrest hospital is a multi-stage, teaching hospital and long-term care facility for the elderly in Toronto. Its patient population is Jewish. This hospital has been one of the places at the forefront of geriatric medicine/care/research in Canada for awhile.
https://www.womenofbaycrest.com/news_articles.php
http://www.baycrest.org/Health_Information/Health_News/default_12276.asp
So hope for those of us, who wonder the value of using our failing/diminishing mother tongue or 2nd, language courses we took awhile ago. My partner said to me: " So there's hope for us?", since his German fluency like my Chinese has degraded.
For a long time, I've always believed that knowing a 2nd language or more, does require the brain to restructure the world/logic abit different. Just that some of us jump between 2 languages much more smoothly, whereas others just stumble and falter more.
And I argue that of course, this would include the use of Latin, the dead language, to keep your memory alive!
If you are biliingual and use 2 (or more) languages that helps too. As shown by a medical study on elderly patients in Canada. Study showed delay of dementia /memory loss by 4 years for bilingual people.
Baycrest hospital is a multi-stage, teaching hospital and long-term care facility for the elderly in Toronto. Its patient population is Jewish. This hospital has been one of the places at the forefront of geriatric medicine/care/research in Canada for awhile.
https://www.womenofbaycrest.com/news_articles.php
http://www.baycrest.org/Health_Information/Health_News/default_12276.asp
So hope for those of us, who wonder the value of using our failing/diminishing mother tongue or 2nd, language courses we took awhile ago. My partner said to me: " So there's hope for us?", since his German fluency like my Chinese has degraded.
For a long time, I've always believed that knowing a 2nd language or more, does require the brain to restructure the world/logic abit different. Just that some of us jump between 2 languages much more smoothly, whereas others just stumble and falter more.
And I argue that of course, this would include the use of Latin, the dead language, to keep your memory alive!