Your pet may be saving you from dementia

And cognitive decline isn’t just a bad thing in its own right, it’s also often a precursor to full-blown dementia. “Pet association was associated with slower rates of decline in composite verbal cognition, verbal memory, and verbal fluency among individuals living alone,” write Dr. Ciyong Lu and his colleagues from the school of public health at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. This came after they’d crunched the numbers... + full article