Regularly visiting museums is associated with a lower likelihood of developing dementia, according to new research from University College London (UCL).
Analysis of a decade’s worth of data from 4,000 people aged over 52 found that in a given year up to ten out of every thousand who never visited museums developed dementia. This compares with up to three in a thousand of those who visited museums every few months or more.
The findings were presented by Dr Daisy Fancourt, a research fellow at UCL, at a recent conference held by the charity Arts 4 Dementia.
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