Forbes September 14, 2023
Reading. Crafts. Gardening. Volunteer work. Walking. Pickle ball.
New research suggests hobbies have key mental health benefits for the elderly, highlighting the need for strategies to support hobby participation in aging populations.
In general, hobbies “involve imagination, novelty, creativity, sensory activation, self-expression, relaxation, and cognitive stimulation, all of which are positively related to mental health and wellbeing via psychological, biological, social, and behavioral pathways,” Daisy Fancourt, a behavioral science and health researcher at the University College London (UCL)’s Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, and her co-authors wrote in a study published in Nature Medicine this week.
There, researchers at UCL, Japan’s National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, and other centers in Europe and Japan brought together survey, questionnaire, and...
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