Cognitive Aging: A Primer

The brief’s key findings are:

• A growing body of research shows that cognitive aging reduces the brain’s processing ability, but also increases its stock of useful knowledge.
• On balance, most workers are able to stay productive through their 50s and 60s and retain the capacity to manage their finances once they retire.
• Some people, however, are vulnerable to declining performance in the workplace or to making poor financial decisions.
• Forthcoming briefs will assess these issues in greater depth.