Mental Skills Can Decline Years Before Dying
September 1, 2008
It has been proved by a research that men and women undergo a rapid descent in mental skills or capabilities around 15 years before their death. Verbal skill, spatial analysis and imaginative capabilities are the particular victims of this cognitive decline, which is not a usual part of the aging process. This phase of loss and downfall is termed as terminal decline phase. Acceleration in weakening of cognitive abilities before death is a proven fact as stated by the department of psychology at Goteborg University, in Sweden. The findings have distinctly showed a pattern of terminal decline even in case of healthy individuals. There are some changes in the brain that influence our cognitive abilities in old age.
A research was undertaken in which over a 30-year period, each male and female participant were tested for 12 different mental health tests to estimate the possible onset of dementia. It was concluded through the test that elderly mental skills start worsening irrespective of both age and dementia. And it was astonishing that much before death such mental decline starts in our brains.
Verbal ability showed a sharp decline more than six years before death, whereas, spatial reasoning started to decline nearly before eight years. The perceptual speed, which is the ability to compare figures and images correctly and quickly, is the first thing to decline as much as 15 years before death. There is a certain requirement of medical professionals to assess the possible degeneration of mental health among the elderly patients .The most important part of the study is the distinction revealed between the normal aging process and the dying process. There is a definite period before death when the mental function starts declining at an accelerating rate owing to the natural causes and much before the time we estimate.
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