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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom grew up in NYC with six sisters. They all moved out to the suburbs and she and 3 other sisters learned to drive in their 20s.

The three sisters who didn't learn how to drive also did not take much agency over their lives - they were homemakers or secretaries and their husbands picked them up and dropped them off, they did not have a lot of outside hobbies or activities.

Those 3 sisters (out of 7 girls) are the only ones to suffer from dementia in their 70s. One passed away, and the remaining 2 are quite advanced.  The other sisters are all pretty healthy cognitively in their 80s.

I'm not trying to say not driving = cognitive decline, but certainly, I see a correlation in my own family between low personal agency and declining cognitive health. [/quote]
Blame "low personal agency" and driving was just part of it. If one of those sisters had learned to drive, they'd still be behind because of LPA. No need to give too much importance to driving. Keeping a job or getting a job into later years would have helped more than driving.[/quote]

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