{"id":16477,"date":"2020-07-20T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T12:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16477"},"modified":"2020-07-20T08:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T12:42:18","slug":"the-best-hope-of-fending-off-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16477","title":{"rendered":"The best hope of fending off Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective medication to treat Alzheimer\u2019s has proven elusive and it\u2019s been more than a decade since any new drug received FDA approval; however, experts are increasingly convinced behaviors and not a pill, may be the key to securing extra years of quality life.\u00a0 Based on research funded by the National Institute of Aging, the Alzheimer\u2019s Associations and others concluded healthy lifestyle behaviors yield \u201csubstantially lower risk\u201d for Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\u00a0 Read article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/indepth\/2020\/7\/19\/21317841\/alzheimers-disease-brain-exercise-nih-nia-aging-lifestyle-dementia-covid-19\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7919\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_31506937alzheimers-dementia-memory-care-1024x663.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective medication to treat Alzheimer\u2019s has proven elusive and it\u2019s been more than a decade since any new drug received<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}