Addressing 14 health and lifestyle factors could prevent nearly half of global dementia cases, according to a recent report by the Lancet Commission on dementia prevention, intervention and care. 

The researchers calculate that if society and individuals could completely address the 14 health and lifestyle factors, it could prevent or delay nearly half (45%) of dementia cases.

“You want people in their 40’s and 50’s already to be doing the right kinds of things, to get the right kind of advice,” said George Grossburg, MD, the Henry & Amelia Nasrallah Professor in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. 

In the HEC Media video, Grossberg offered valuable insights about lifestyle changes people can do now to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease