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Livingston, Gill and Huntley, J and Sommerlad, Andrew and Ames, David and Ballard, Clive and Banerjee, Sube and Brayne, Carol and Burns, Alistair and Cohen-Mansfield, Jiska and Cooper, Claudia and Costafreda, Sergi G and Dias, Amit and Fox, Nick and Gitlin, Laura N and Howard, Robert and Kales, Helen C and Kivimäki, Mika and Larson, Eric B and Ogunniyi, Adesola and Orgeta, Vasiliki and Richie, Karen and Rockwood, Kenneth and Sampson, Elizabeth L and Samus, Quincy and Schneider, Lon S and Selbaek, Geir and Teri, Linda and Mukadem, Naaheed (2020) Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission. The Lancet Commission.

External website: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/dementia2020


Worldwide around 50 million people live with dementia, and this number is projected to increase to 152 million by 2050, rising particularly in low and middle-income countries.

An update to the 2017 Lancet Commission on dementia, prevention, intervention and care expands the number of modifiable risk factors from 9 to 12, to now include head injuries in mid-life, excessive alcohol consumption in mid-life, and exposure to air pollution in later life.

Forty per cent of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by targeting these 12 modifiable risk factors. The 2020 Commission update calls for nations and individuals to be ambitious about preventing dementia, and lays out a set of policies and lifestyle changes to help.

Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Review
Drug Type
Alcohol
Intervention Type
Harm reduction
Date
30 July 2020
Pages
34 p.
Publisher
The Lancet Commission
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