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A lifetime of reading may delay Alzheimer’s by six years

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 13, 2026
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People with the richest intellectual lives didn’t develop Alzheimer’s until age 94, on average. Those with the least enrichment got it at 88. That six-year gap stems from a study of 1,939 people, published in the journal Neurology, which followed participants for roughly eight years and measured what “enrichment” en…

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