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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]

Out of all of my childhood friends, I was the one who couldn’t drive.  All of them stayed in the area where we grew up, and their interests focus around their children and grandchildren.  In contrast, I went away to college, attended top tier universities, and finally learned to drive well enough to function in a smaller city that lacked reliable public transportation.

PP, perhaps the critical variable is less knowing how to drive — and more being curious enough about the world to figure out how to navigate it successfully, one way or another.

I think people in the very car-centric areas of the US don’t realize that driving is a relatively recent skill that only became common after the ‘60s or so, which destroyed the very awesome mass transit systems in many US cities.  [/quote]

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