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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Nov 20, 2014

Jobs requiring intellectually challenging tasks may help preserve thinking skills and memory as workers age, a new study suggests. Researchers compared IQ scores obtained around age 11 from more than 1,000 Scottish people with their memory and reasoning scores around age 70. The scientists found that those who had mentally stimulating jobs appeared to retain sharper thinking even years after retirement. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh scored workers' jobs for their complexity with people, data and other criteria. Jobs scoring highly for the complexity of work with people, include lawyer, social worker, surgeon and probation officer. WRCB has the story.