Sticking to hobbies, arts and crafts as you age can help your brain. While it can be easy to scoff at the arts-and-crafts activities offered in many community and senior centers, it seems these social pastimes can stave off some forms of brain disease. “256 people ages 85 to 89 with normal cognitive function filled out questionnaires about their typical activities at age 50 and also during the year prior to study enrollment. Every 15 months for roughly the next four years, the participants completed in-person mental status checkups with tests of memory, language, visual-spatial skills and executive function, which include abilities like reasoning and problem solving. Those who said they engaged in things like painting, quilting or book clubs during middle age were less likely to develop memory impairments that may precede dementia.” The study indicates that these sorts of activities could help to keep a person’s mind active and help stave off diseases associated with aging. “As you use your brain for these activities, we believe that you preserve or maintain function of the brain cells; you may also develop new neurons or neuronal connections that preserve memory and thinking skills

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