{"id":893,"date":"2023-02-07T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=893"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:26:44","slug":"defying-dementia-how-to-keep-your-brain-fighting-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Defying dementia: How to keep your brain fighting fit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE number of people affected by dementia may be rising, but most specialists say that\u2019s largely because more of us are living longer. Between the late 1980s and 2011, the proportion of people over 65 with dementia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms11398\">actually dropped by 20 per cent<\/a>\u00a0in England and Wales. Between 2000 and 2012, dementia rates\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2587084\">in that age group dropped by 24 per cent in the US<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/micda.psc.isr.umich.edu\/people\/profile\/566\/Kenneth_M_Langa\">Similar declines<\/a>\u00a0have been reported in other developed countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431230-500-defying-dementia-what-can-you-do\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431230-500-defying-dementia-what-can-you-do\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE number of people affected by dementia may be rising, but most specialists say that\u2019s largely because more of us are living longer. Between the late 1980s and 2011, the proportion of people over 65 with dementia\u00a0actually dropped by 20 per cent\u00a0in England and Wales. Between 2000 and 2012, dementia rates\u00a0in that age group dropped by 24 per cent in the US.\u00a0Similar declines\u00a0have been reported in other developed countries. Original article: https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431230-500-defying-dementia-what-can-you-do\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}