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Six lifestyle choices to slow memory decline named in 10-year study | Memory

08/02/2023binomo

A combination of healthy lifestyle choices such as eating well, exercising regularly, playing cards and socializing at least twice a week may help slow the rate of memory decline and reduce the risk of dementia, a decade-long study suggests.

Memory is a fundamental function of daily life that continuously declines as people age, impairing quality of life and productivity, and increasing the risk of dementia.

Evidence from previous research has been insufficient to evaluate the effect of a healthy lifestyle on memory trajectory, but now a study suggests that combining multiple healthy lifestyle choices – the more the better –

Healthy lifestyles for dementia prevention

02/02/2023binomo

Severine Sabiaresearch professor1,
Archana Singh-Manouxresearch professor2

¹Université Paris Cité, Inserm 1153, Epidemiology of Aging and Neurodegenerative diseases, France
²Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK

Correspondence to: S Sabia severine.sabiaatinserm.fr

An increasingly urgent public health priority

Aging is accompanied by a decline in several measures of cognitive function, such as memory, reasoning, and psychomotor speed. Differences in the rate of change in cognitive function can be substantial between individuals,1 highlighting the importance of identifying modifiable factors that are associated with favorable cognitive aging trajectories. An impaired cognitive status can affect the lives