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U3A Vall Del Pop meeting at the Centre Polivalent, Murla, 12th January - Dementia Risk Reduction
Presentation by Lawrence Whalley, MD, FRCP(E), FRCPsych, Professor emeritus University of Aberdeen, UK.
Dementia researchers agree that if the onset of dementia could be delayed by six months within 20 years, the number of people living with dementia could fall by almost 30%. A five year delay would halve dementia incidence. Reports from Sweden, UK, Spain and the US suggest substantial reductions of the dementia burden are starting to be observed. Lawrence Whalley will encourage those at risk of dementia, for reasons of age or family history, to follow simple guidelines to reduce their personal dementia risk. This will not be a case of “one size fits all” but advice to tailor personal interventions based on self-appraisal of risk.
Step 1 is to accept the maxim “what’s good for your heart is good for your brain”. This means keeping blood pressure within safe limits for a healthy male aged 40, weight control regimes and a healthy balanced diet with low-moderate alcohol consumption.
Step 2 is to maintain a socially engaged and physically effortful lifestyle. Step 3 is to anticipate those exposures that may trigger dementia to either avoid or mitigate their effects.
Where supplementary steps are needed, blood pressure/cholesterol control with drugs can be essential, some dietary supplements are of proven benefit (especially vitamin B12/folate; oily fish less so) but otherwise there are no other drugs or specific nutrients that reduce dementia risk.
Please visit the website
http://u3avalldelpop.com for further details on U3A Vall Del Pop, their meetings and activities and directions to the venue. New members are always welcomed – please join them at their first 2017 meeting.
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