By Joke Kujenya POOR SLEEP, high blood pressure, hearing loss, social isolation and physical inactivity can increase the risk of cognitive decline over decades, while obstructive sleep apnea may further impair the brain’s ability to clear accumulated waste. JKNewsMedia.com reports that international dementia research has increasingly fo...
By Joke Kujenya WHO’s latest guidance says up to 45% of dementia risk may be prevented or delayed through healthy living. FOR MANY people, forgetting where the keys were left or struggling to recall a familiar name is often dismissed as a normal part of ageing. However, the World Health Organisation (WHO) dementia prevention guidelines ...
By Joke Kujenya REDUCED RISK of dementia has been linked to shingles vaccination following a large-scale study by researchers at the University of Oxford examining long term health outcomes among older adults. The findings were published in the journal Nature Medicine and drawn from an analysis of electronic medical records covering 100 milli...
