In Your 70s And Losing Memory? Try Some Sex

In your 70s and losing memory? Try some sex. (Getty Image)

Staying active between the sheetscan help older adults stay sharp mentally, finds a new study which suggests that men and women who stay sexually active in their 70s have higher cognitive functioning.

For the results, researchers from the Netherlands analysed 1,747 people (with an average age of 71).

They answered questions about their sexual relationships and whether they consider intimacy to be an important part of life.

The team assessed sexual activity, memory, mental processing speed, general cognitive function and ability to reason and think abstractly in the participants.

They also compared their answers to medical charts tracking chronic diseases, depression and medications.

The findings showed that older adults who did not see the importance of sexual behaviour or a need for intimacy had lower average cognitive scores.

Those who felt sexuality was important and said they were satisfied with their current sexual activity had better cognitive scores, Newsmax.com reported.

The association between lower general cognitive functioning and perceiving sexuality as unimportant was stronger in women.

“Lower processing speed, general cognitive functioning, and delayed memory recall were associated with disagreeing with a remaining need for intimacy when getting older,” the team wrote.

Those who were satisfied with their sexual relationships performed consistently better on memory tests, they concluded.

Posted by Kunda on March 5, 2015. Filed under HEALTH. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

10 Responses to In Your 70s And Losing Memory? Try Some Sex

Chief of Grief

March 5, 2015 at 11:56 am

Yes,nowonder ka hil hefner kabela sharp n active aiyi,kanshi tukalatombanafye mpakafye napa death bed nomupowe al over the sheets!
major chileshe

March 5, 2015 at 1:48 pm

Am nowhere close to my 70s,so who givs a fack? Tough luck u 70s guys
New Educated Zambia

March 5, 2015 at 2:18 pm

It is a suddening situation when our older populations who have worked hard and given us our freedom, are not being taken care of by the government. These OAPS require government support as they are a minority group of people who are at high risk. The PF government has again failed to implement systems that will see to it that such people get the support they need. Let us vote UPND in 2016 to ensure laws and policy that will implement support for minorities who are part and parcel of our society
- New Educated Zambia
  
  March 5, 2015 at 2:19 pm
  
  *saddening*
- abene bansamba
  
  March 6, 2015 at 12:54 pm
  
  misunderstanding at its peak.
Denkete

March 6, 2015 at 4:20 am

The article is talking about older pipo having sex to stay sharp. How does the govt come in?
Sikiza

March 7, 2015 at 7:27 am

Careful one man slightly over 70 shouted on top of ka sweety 18 after enjaculation ati nafwa ee palya pene shikulu anya no kunya we were in the next room people sorrouded the room to watch them ninshi bali mumafi
Desmond Ozokwo

March 7, 2015 at 3:38 pm

Ba sikiza, awe kwena!
shanikeshume

March 7, 2015 at 8:52 pm

denkete thinks upright than u.n.e.z who always seems to come undeveloped clan
- New Educated Zambia
  
  March 8, 2015 at 3:28 pm
  
  COuld you please rephrase that so that we can all understand what you were trying to say ba PF