Jornal de Demência

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Prevention of Dementia: Focus on Lifestyle

Stefan Jack Bartlett

The objective of this paper is to summarize current knowledge on the possible advantages of life interventions, with particular attention to physical fitness, cognitive exertion, rest and social exertion as well as nutrition. There’s a large amount of published papers furnishing partial substantiation and asserting the need for immediate, applicable preventative life measures against dementia and AD development. Nonetheless, there are presently great difficulties in drafting effective guidelines in this field. This depends substantially upon lack of randomized controlled trials assessing benefits versus risks of particular life interventions strategies. still, due to the rapid-fire increase of dementia burden, life factors and their amelioration should be formerly made part of decision making.