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Oldies are not the most forgetful….

09/08/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

It’s the classic, isn’t it – ‘I remember their face so well, but I just cannot put a name to it…..’ Well, to be honest, I have had name ‘apnea’ for decades so cannot really attribute it to increasing age – although…. Is it getting worse?…..

However I was both amused and cheered by a recent poll by the Trending Machine which found that on 10 measures of forgetfulness (remembering names, remembering your keys, what day it is, to bring lunch, take your medicine, have a shower etc) the over 55s were highest scorers on only two – remembering names and remembering passwords. On all of the others 18-34 year-olds fared worse!

The Trending Machine experts puts this down to the greater stress and the higher need to multi-task of the 18-34 year-old group, but is that all there is to it? The link was sent to me by an electrosensitivity group, EMRefugees and I wonder, as they obviously did, whether high exposure to electromagnetic pollution in the younger age group might not also be implicated.

Category: Blogging/social media, ElectrosensitivityTag: electromagnetic pollution, Electrosensitivity, EMFRefugees, forgetfulness, forgetfulness a sign of electrosensitivity, forgetting names, forgetting names a sign of age, The Trending Machine

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