From purling to puzzles, these hobbies could reduce dementia risk
Dementia is now the leading cause of death in Australia.
May 26, 2026
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Mental Process: Cognitive Reserve
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Better brain health linked to resilience against early Alzheimer's in adults 65 to 80
A healthy brain may help protect thinking and memory skills from the early effects of Alzheimer's disease, a new study has found. Dementia is currently the leading cause of death in Australia and Alzheimer's disease is its ...
May 15, 2026
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Strong social health linked to better brain function and resilience
A major international research collaboration led by UNSW Sydney's Center for Healthy Brain Aging (CHeBA), in partnership with an international consortium of six leading universities, has found that social health—how individuals ...
Apr 16, 2026
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Preparing a home cooked meal at least once a week may cut older people's dementia risk by 30%
Preparing a home-cooked meal at least once a week may cut older people's risk of dementia by 30%, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. This risk may be 70% lower in older novice ...
Mar 24, 2026
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Challenging your brain helps keep it healthy. Here's how to do it
"Exercise your brain," experts advise people hoping to stave off dementia. But how? Stretching your brain might be the better description.
Mar 9, 2026
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Dementia: How brain resilience, immune health and the menopause play a role in women's risk
Women are more likely than men to be diagnosed with dementia. While researchers have some idea of the factors that elevate risk, it's still not entirely clear why this happens. But a recent study suggests that the menopause ...
Feb 20, 2026
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Not all sitting is the same when it comes to brain health
Passive activities such as watching television have been linked to worse memory and cognitive skills, while 'active sitting' like playing cards or reading correlate with better brain health, researchers have found.
Jan 19, 2026
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Personalized prevention strategies may lower Alzheimer's risk by targeting individual factors
How can we influence whether we develop Alzheimer's disease later in life? Neurodegeneration researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine are systematically examining the factors that trigger the onset of the disease—and ...
Jan 13, 2026
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Alzheimer's symptoms often diverge from tau levels, study suggests
One of the biggest challenges in treating Alzheimer's disease (AD) is how heterogeneous it is in terms of speed of decline and presence of other pathologies. That is, more than 50% of people with AD have other pathologies ...
Jan 6, 2026
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Specific depressive symptoms in midlife linked to increased dementia risk
Six particular depressive symptoms when experienced in midlife predict dementia risk more than two decades later, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
Dec 15, 2025
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