Studies show older people continue to learn.
Op-ed columnist David Brooks writes in the New York Times (2/2, A27) that according to Freud, "About the age of fifty...the elasticity of the mental processes on which treatment depends is, as a rule, lacking. Old people are no longer educable." But, Brooks says "over the past few years, researchers have found that the brain is capable of creating new connections and even new neurons all through life." In fact, "older people" not only "retain their ability to remember emotionally nuanced events," but are also "able to integrate memories from their left and right hemispheres," as "their brains reorganize to help compensate for the effects of aging."
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