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Idle retirement is 'bad for your brain'

23 January 2018

Dr Baowen Xue (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) has led a study of cognitive decline in civil servants, demonstrating that short-term memory deteriorated nearly 40 per cent more quickly once they became pensioners. Read: Telegraph, More: Express, Daily Mail, Times (£), Daily Mail (2)