Use-It-Or-Lose-It Skills
Treating decline as skill loss reframes aging as an active training problem rather than a passive slide. Use-it-or-lose-it skills include physical capacities and cognitive or creative capacities. Many capacities once viewed as automatic ag…
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Treating decline as skill loss reframes aging as an active training problem rather than a passive slide. Use-it-or-lose-it skills include physical capacities and cognitive or creative capacities. Many capacities once viewed as automatic age losses are presented as skills that decline when they are unused. Continuous practice is used to explain how fine motor mastery can persist into very old age.