LOS ANGELES: Millions of people around the world could ward off dementia by heeding the advice of previous health studies rather than waiting for future discoveries, according to one of Australia’s leading dementia researchers.
Professor Henry Brodaty, the co-director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Aging at the University of NSW, said that if older people increased by 5 or 10 per cent their efforts to manage risk factors, several million people could keep dementia at bay…