Can intelligence improves with age?

Researchers have discovered that the mind, like the rest of the body, needs activity to stay fit. The more active the aging, never too late to learn new things. Older people can sometimes suffer their short-term memories. However, once new material has been learned, older people can do as well as their younger colleagues at remembering it. To acquire new information, the best way is to activate their long memories. To do that, the aged ones must be allowed to discover the new material at their own pace. The less outside interference, the better it would be. Says one retiree who started his own company at the age of 65: "God has given us certain talents, and he gave them to us to use."

Old age can be a time of great intellectual growth and achievement. A number of well-known artist and business professionals have done their best work after the age of 60. The famous artist Georgia O'keefe took up pottery in her late eighties when her eyesight became too weak for painting. The brilliant pianist Vladimir Horowitz was not pleased with his performance at the age of 78. He retired and started to work on his technique. At the age of 81, he made a triumphant return to the concert stage. At age 80, the Spanish painter Goya drew a picture of a very old man with the inscription: " I am still learning."

We too are still learning about the wonderful creation and the more we learn, the more we will believe in creation.

Mona Youssef - Realist fine artist