Age is the main risk factor for cognitive decline. So with more people around the world living longer, cases of dementia are set to rise. There's currently no cure - but research suggests that happiness can reduce the impact of this awful illness.
Psychologist Emily Willroth helped write a chapter on this topic for the 2024 World Happiness Report - and explains how making friends, helping others and engaging in fun physical activities can slow cognitive decline, even when the disease has taken hold.
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04/01/24 • 35 min
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos - Can Happiness Ward Off Dementia?
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Speaker 2This year, Finland has yet again been crowned the planet's happiest nation by the World Happiness Report. Country rankings like these are usually the only thing people hear about when it comes to this annual report, but here on the Happiness Lab we like to go a bit deeper into the well being science, and so in the next episodes we'll be diving into what the report says about other pre
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