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Newswise — Dementia and marital status could be linked, according to a new Michigan State University study that found married people are less likely to experience dementia as they age.
On the other hand, divorcees are about twice as likely as married people to develop dementia, the study indicated, with divorced men showing a greater disadvantage than divorced women.
In one of the first studies of its kind, Hui Liu, professor of sociology, and colleagues analyzed four groups of unmarried individuals: divorced or separated; widowed; never married; and cohabiters. Among them, the divorced had the highest risk of dementia.
The study, published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, comes at a time when 5.8 million people in the U.S….
