Dementia rates fell 30% over 16 years — working and education may deserve credit

(By Mariah Taylor for Becker’s Hospital Review)

Researchers from RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank, found dementia rates dropped by 30.1 percent among individuals 65 and older over a 16-year period.

The study, published Nov. 7 in PNAS, analyzed data between 2000 and 2016 and sorted it by age, gender, race and ethnicity, education and lifetime earnings. Overall, dementia prevalence among men dropped by 40 percent, while it went down by 20 percent for women. Continue reading here…

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