How older people are reaping brain benefits from new tech


The first cohort of seniors to have contended – not always enthusiastically – with a digital society has reached the age when cognitive impairment becomes more common. — Sol Cotti/The New York Times

It started with a high school typing course.

Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired her as an after-school worker while she was still a junior.

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