Having Piano lessons at 60 and onwards could stave off dementia by strengthening brain tissue that degrades when memory problems set in, scientists say
Researchers found benefits of piano practice for people aged sixty and above. Participants tinkled for 30 minutes a day and took an hour-long class weekly.
Brains scans after tickling the ivories revealed their brain decline slowed down.
Taking up music later in life has benefits in many ways including increasing life quaility and possibly expectancy.
Britain faces a dementia epidemic because of its rapidly ageing population.The benefits came with six months of weekly lessons learning to play the Piano, they said.Scans revealed the piano students lost little or none of the density of their white matter, suggesting no decline in brain function.

These changes in the brain do appear to be related to piano training intensity,’ wrote the researchers.