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Study: Speaking Multiple Languages Associated With Slower Aging
- The journal Nature Aging published findings that multilingual individuals are half as likely to show accelerated biological ageing, reporting a decreased risk of accelerated ageing.
- An international team analysed data on 86,000 participants aged 51–90 across 27 European countries, using a computational method to calculate each participant's biobehavioural age gap.
- The researchers found that active multilingualism showed stronger benefits than people who once studied another language in school, with effects persisting after adjusting for age, health, environment and supporting cognition .
- Policy experts note that findings could inform public health and education policies, with Susan Teubner-Rhodes suggesting they might 'encourage people to go out and try to learn a second language, or keep that second language active,' and May emphasizing the benefits of being bi/multilingual.
- Despite past debate, previous small studies produced inconsistent results, and many English-speaking countries have a monolingual proportion up to 75 percent, facing ageing populations and healthcare strain.
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According to a study, people who master other languages besides their mother tongue age more slowly. And not only that: they are probably better protected against dementia. The effect increases with the number of languages.
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The brains of people who speak multiple languages may age more slowly and their mental decline may be less severe, according to a new major study. According to researchers, multilingual people are half as likely to develop signs of accelerated biological aging as monolinguals.
·Estonia
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