Just as you can no longer run and jump as much as you did in your youth, your brain’s ability to learn, remember and solve problems slows down with age. Over time, you begin to find it harder to remember similar things and to divide your attention between two or more activities. All of this disrupts your focus, and you may become distracted more easily than in your younger years.
Likewise, hearing loss, which increases with age, makes it harder to distinguish conversations in a noisy environment. Because trying to hear requires more concentration, a decline in the ability to focus will also make it harder to understand conversations.
Many people begin to notice such changes in their 50s and 60s. Even though these findings sometimes surprise people, most age-related memory and thinking problems are not caused by an underlying brain disease or by Alzheimer’s disease. Memory problems may be due to the age-related slowing of thought-processing.
Most of these impairments are reversible and are related to sleep loss. However, structural changes that may have developed may require more detailed investigation.
Over time, not only does the ability to learn decline, but recall also begins to decrease. Thoughts waiting in memory may disappear before there is a chance to process them.
Many people try to keep these brain changes in check through certain lifestyle habits. Beyond all this, body aches, which increase with age, can also make it harder to concentrate. Pain itself is distracting, and some medications used to treat pain can also affect concentration.
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