Topic
Every Healthy Aging Secrets article tagged dementia — 6 pieces across 3 sections.
Brain & Memory
The supplement industry has produced a great deal of confident advertising about brain health and remarkably little convincing data. The interventions with real evidence behind them are duller, cheaper and harder.
Preventive Care
The average person waits around a decade between noticing hearing difficulty and doing something about it. That delay is not neutral — the auditory system reorganises in the meantime.
Brain & Memory
Losing your keys is not a symptom. Losing the ability to work out what keys are for is a different matter. The clinical distinction rests on function, not on how often you forget.
Living Well
Spousal carers have measurably worse health outcomes than matched non-carers, and the effect is concentrated in those who report strain. Most of the protective measures are refused as luxuries.
Brain & Memory
Post-mortem studies keep finding substantial Alzheimer's pathology in people who were cognitively intact when they died. The concept built to explain that has practical implications.
Living Well
The design principles are well established and cost very little. Most of them work by reducing the demand on memory and judgement rather than by adding equipment.
