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Chapter

7

Enjoy Your Ageless

Mental Agility

Game Your Way to Ageless

Mental Agility

KEY CONCEPTS

Schaie’s Results—The Big Payoff
Strategies to Improve Mental Ability
Mental Agility Pretest
Mental Agility Exercises
Mental Agility Posttest
Mental Development Activities

INTRODUCTION

“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”—
Marie Dressler

So after all this, what do we really mean by Ageless Mental
Agility? Ageless summons up a vision of freedom from
chronological constraints. Mental sounds like the perfect
blend of brain and mind. Agility feels like an ability to freely
respond in novel ways to solve new problems. Let’s exam-
ine why this book culminates in this final burst of energy.

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