I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Kapart.

Brain Health and Aging was the focus of a series of panels during a live event at the Washington Post

on September 17.

I moderated the conversation on boosting your cognitive reserve with

Washington Post's well-being editor Tara Parker Pope and Dr. Robert Klitzman, a

professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and author of Doctor will you

pray for me we talked all about the various ways we can keep our brain

stimulated socializing, exercise, diet. No, Bacon isn't part of the plan.

We actually talked about that.

And we talked about the stigma of cognitive decline, its impact on senior citizens, and how cognitive decline

is not synonymous with dementia or Alzheimer's.

So Tara, one of your Brain Matters articles had this recommendation.

Channel your Inner Betty White.

I love it, right?

What does the late beloved actress from the Golden Girls

and teach us about aging and the brain?

Well, Betty White was, one could call her a super-ageer.

There's a lot of interest in these people who continue to thrive as they age and

with Betty White she was just a representative of an age group that does really well in terms of brain health and she was

very active she was socially active she was trying new things doing hard things

that's a sign of a super-age you know you know, taking on new challenges later in life.

She was physically fed and active.

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