An 89-Year-Old Dynamo Covers Scientific American Mind
Photographer, actress and longtime aesthetic realist Barbara Singer.
In a cover story for the July/August issue of Scientific American Mind, neurologist David A. Bennett, the director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago, explains how the concept “cognitive reserve” can help delay the symptoms of older-age dementia. Among the ways an ageing person can accumulate extra brainpower, he has found, is to maintain a sense of purpose in their life.
That’s why Barbara Singer is on the cover. As the magazine’s managing editor Claudia Wallis explains in her issue letter, the 89-year-old New Yorker embodies much of Bennett’s study findings:
Singer does it all.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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