![]() "The most important thing is just to find a book that you can get absorbed in - you want to create a situation for yourself where you can get lost in a book," Stine-Morrow said. The collection contains a mixture of classics and contemporaries as well as diverse characters, styles, and genres, but each book has one thing in common: they're immersive, or easy to get lost in. Stine-Morrow's team and experts at the Champaign Public Library’s Adult Services Department curated a list of page-turners for their older adult participants to read. ![]() A team led by Professor Liz-Stine-Morrow found that spending regular amounts of time immersed in a book can help strengthen memory skills in older adults. The Beckman Institute published an article about the study, which is reported in Frontiers in Psychology. This year, Beckman researchers used science to demonstrate that reading is still one of the best things you can do for your brain. ![]()
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