Why being bilingual really does seem to delay dementia

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Why being bilingual really does seem to delay dementia

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Speaking more than one language appears to boost our brain in multiple ways

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Parlez-vous Français? Learning another language may stave off Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia – and it’s never too late to start.

Bilingualism was

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the deferral of dementia in 2007, when

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at York University in Toronto and her colleagues examined the records of people who had been referred to a memory clinic and diagnosed with dementia. Of the 184 people in their analysis, symptoms appeared four years later in those who were bilingual than in their monolingual peers.…

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