TAKING ACTION TO REDUCE YOUR RISK OF DEMENTIA
Both the World Health Organisation and the Lancet's Commission on Dementia, Prevention, Intervention and Care have concluded that it is possible to reduce your risk of dementia. The precise size of the risk reduction is not clear but both of these organisations estimate that you can reduce your risk by up to a half, in part by things you can do for yourself, in part by what the health service can do to reduce the factors that lead to interruption of the supply of oxygen rich blood to the brain
Every Neighbourhood will be enabled to develop a Dementia Risk Reduction system with the objectoives set out below
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Both the World Health Organisation and the Lancet's Commission on Dementia, Prevention, Intervention and Care have concluded that it is possible to reduce your risk of dementia. The precise size of the risk reduction is not clear but both of these organisations estimate that you can reduce your risk by up to a half, in part by things you can do for yourself, in part by what the health service can do to reduce the factors that lead to interruption of the supply of oxygen rich blood to the brain
Every Neighbourhood will be enabled to develop a Dementia Risk Reduction system with the objectoives set out below
- To provide everyone from sixty on with information about the risk factors and opportunities for action
- To provide information about other dementia risk factors in the information and support given to people receiving cardiovascular risk reduction
- To campaign to reduce air pollution
- To increase the number of people receiving hearing and vision tests
- To increase the number of older people volunteering or participating in learning opportunities
- To increase the number of people over 60 taking uop or restarting creative activities
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