Perception of dementia risk and preventive actions among US adults aged 50 to 64 years

For dementia prevention they totally throw up their hands in defeat. 

 I'm doing this.

Dementia prevention 19 ways

Don't follow me, I'm not medically trained.

Your risk of dementia is pretty high.

Your chances of getting dementia.

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?   May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.

3. A 20% chance in this research.   July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018 

5. Parkinson’s Disease May Have Link to Stroke March 2017

 

 

Perception of dementia risk and preventive actions among US adults aged 50 to 64 years

JAMA — Maust DT, Solway E, Langa KM, et al. | February 18, 2020

This report examines how adults aged 50 to 64 years estimate their lifetime risk of dementia and the risk-reducing strategies they pursue. For Alzheimer disease or other dementias, disease-preventing or disease-modifying treatments do not exist. Adults may be unaware of procedures to decrease their risk and resort to marketed but ineffective options, such as ginkgo biloba or vitamin E. New preventive therapies may not be, while these so-called treatments are relatively inexpensive. Therefore, people overestimating their risk of increasing dementia could lead to inappropriate use and excessive costs.

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