We know there are lifestyle changes people can make to reduce their risk of developing dementia as they age.

A landmark trial has compared personalised coaching on this to stock standard public health messaging.

Providing online modules to educate people about physical activity, brain training, nutrition and mental health improved cognition scores.

Researchers say those who underwent coaching “demonstrated the greatest benefit to date in a randomised control trial to prevent cognitive decline”.

Guest/s

• Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty, co-director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing at the University of New South Wales

References

• An online multidomain lifestyle intervention to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk older adults: a randomized controlled trial