Slowing development and progression of dementia through hobbies

74 year old Jim Padley doesn’t have dementia, but both his dad and brother suffered from it. Padley is retired after spending almost three decades as a high school director of athletics and football coach.  But in the last number of years, he’s been working on a model train village in his basement.  It started small but now has grown to take up much of the developed space -- and along the way, he suspects, it may help keep his brain nimble. Mary Padley, who has been married