Seniors should travel more to reduce dementia risk
Seniors should travel more to reduce dementia risk Table of Contents 1: Club Tourism and Tohoku University confirm the potential for reducing dementia in travel 2: The number of dementia patients in Japan and around the world is on the rise 3: Bridging the travel divide and making travel more enjoyable for seniors 1: Club Tourism and Tohoku University confirm the potential for reducing dementia in travel On 13 July 2021, Club Tourism Inc. and Tohoku University jointly announced that they had confirmed the possibility of reducing the risk of dementia in travel under certain conditions. They published this study in the academic journal “Humanities and Social Sciences Communications” in March 2021 as “Curiosity-tourism interaction promotes subjective well-being among older adults in Japan.” This research and analysis have confirmed that curiosity is the motivation for travel. The mechanism is that the brain and body are stimulated through travel, which satisfies curiosity and increases subjective well-being. Curiosity is a personality that seeks information about a wide range of things. Old research and analysis have proved that subjective well-being reduces the risk of dementia. So we can say that this research has newly confirmed the possibility of a dementia risk