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Care of the older person
The impact of retirement on cognition at the intersection of race and sex
  1. Atiqur SM-Rahman,
  2. Matthias Hoben
  1. School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Atiqur SM-Rahman; atiqur{at}yorku.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103831

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    Commentary on: Andel R, Veal BM, Howard VJ, et al. Retirement and cognitive aging in a racially diverse sample of older Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Sep;71(9):2769-2778. doi: 10.1111/jgs.18475. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Consequences of retirement are often thought to be negative (e.g., loss of identity, disengagement, retiring mentally), but that does not have to be the case.

    • Understanding how race and sex moderate the impact of retirement on cognition is instrumental in developing tailored public health strategies to promote health in retirement.

    Context

    Suspicions have been raised that retirement may negatively affect a person’s cognition.1 Studies have supported this assumption, but research has also reported positive or no effects of retirement on cognition, especially in specific cognitive domains.2 Theories like ‘mental retirement’, ‘role enhancement’ or ‘use it or lose it’ hypothesise cognitive …

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    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.