10 October 2026 in Cognitive Health, Early Detection, Health
Yes, in one specific circumstance that very few families know about. Medicare's GUIDE programme pays up to $2,625 a year towards respite for a person living with dementia, so that the unpaid family member caring for them can …
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6 October 2026 in Cognitive Health, Health, Brain Health, Education
No. Semaglutide (sold as Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) act on the brain by design, which is how they curb appetite, but acting on the brain and protecting it from dementia are different claims, and …
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15 September 2026 in Cognitive Health, Health, Brain Health, Education
Almost all advice about dementia risk, including some of ours, is addressed to you as an individual. A paper in The Lancet Public Health argues that this framing leaves out the conditions people live in: education, housing, healthcare, …
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20 July 2026 in Cognitive Health, Health, Brain Health, Education
Yes, in part. The 2024 report of the Lancet standing Commission on dementia attributed 45% of dementia worldwide to fourteen risk factors that could in principle be changed, and called its own finding a hopeful picture. It is …
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12 May 2026 in Cognitive Health, Memory Health, Early Detection, Education
Mostly it is normal, and the useful test is not how often you forget but what happens next. A name that arrives twenty minutes later was never lost; retrieving it simply took longer than the conversation allowed. Information …
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3 March 2026 in Cognitive Health, Health, Brain Health, Education
Treating hearing loss may help protect memory and thinking, particularly in older adults already at higher risk. It has not been shown to prevent dementia, and the largest trial to test it found no overall effect at all: …
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11 February 2026 in Cognitive Health, Health, Brain Health, Education
Blood pressure governs how well your brain is supplied, and both directions cause trouble. Years of high pressure damage the small vessels that feed the brain, which raises stroke risk and can gradually erode memory, thinking speed and …
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25 November 2025 in Cognitive Health, Memory Health, Early Detection, Education
Holiday gatherings are when families tend to notice a change, because you are comparing against a memory from last year rather than against yesterday. Here is what separates ordinary forgetting from a pattern worth checking, how to raise …
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10 October 2025 in Cognitive Health, Memory Health, Health, Education
Start with the good news, because it is rarer than it should be in this subject. In a study of 10,189 people followed for 28 years, depression during working life did not raise the risk of dementia at …
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4 May 2025 in Cognitive Health, Health, Memory, Neurology, Cognitive Testing, Cognitive Assessment
Most people who take an at-home memory test are not in crisis. They want a straight answer to something they have been quietly wondering about, and getting that answer early is the whole point: the changes worth catching …
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