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Cognitive Scores Improve With Lifestyle Changes, Trial Shows
- At the 2025 Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto, researchers shared evidence that certain lifestyle changes can help maintain cognitive function in elderly individuals who are vulnerable to dementia.
- This large-scale U.S. POINTER trial enrolled 2,111 adults aged 60-79 with risk factors, comparing a structured program against a self-guided one over two years.
- Both groups improved on cognitive tests, but the structured intervention group showed a statistically significant greater benefit, slowing cognitive aging by one to two years.
- Phyllis Jones, a trial participant who lost 30 pounds, said, "I feel like a different person," illustrating the personal impact of sustained lifestyle changes.
- These results support combining lifestyle programs with drug treatments and suggest empowering at-risk individuals to take proactive control over brain health.
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A combination of healthy activities that include exercise, nutritional diet, computer mind games, and socialization can improve cognitive performance in people at risk of dementia, according to a new large study. The study, conducted in five locations in the United States for two years, is the largest randomized trial to examine whether healthy behaviors protect brain health. "It confirms that paying attention to things like physical activity an…
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(MedPage Today) -- TORONTO -- Two lifestyle interventions -- one structured, the other self-guided -- improved cognition in older adults at risk of cognitive decline, the 2-year U.S. POINTER trial showed. Global cognitive scores increased...
Accessible interventions have been shown to promote mental performance in people aged 60-79 years with risk factors associated with aging
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