Knowing and speaking two languages helps retard the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a recent study has revealed.
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Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting memory and thinking and making the person increasingly dependent on others.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting memory and thinking and making the person increasingly dependent on others.
During the study, Ellen studied 450 Alzheimer’s patients with similar levels of impairment. Half of the patients were bilingual and the rest had spoken only one language all their lives.
The study revealed that there were positive benefits of speaking two languages. For instance, the bilingual patients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 4 or 5 years after the diagnosis of monolingual patients.
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