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My current day job involves doing the tech behind a series of dementia related online courses.

Awesomely, we just kicked off the latest running of our Preventing Dementia MOOC:

https://mooc.utas.edu.au/courses/preventing-dementia-2017-03

I emailed this link to our academic team as I'm sure they'll get bombarded with people asking why they should make changes to their life style if there is a magical cure just around the corner....

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Is there a short summary anywhere of recommendations for life style changes that do benefit the fight against dementia? I don't have it currently, but I must admit the older I get the more the prospect concerns me.

The MIND diet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25681666 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26086182

Here's the tl; dr....

The major risk factor for dementia is ageing.

Approximately 30% of dementia cases may be attributed to seven key modifiable risk factors:

* Diabetes

* Midlife hypertension

* Low educational attainment

* Physical inactivity

* Smoking

* Obesity

* Depression

I just enrolled. Thanks for posting this.

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