Dementia prevention: call to action

Martin Orrell and Carol Brayne published a call to action on behalf of INTERDEM (early detection and timely INTERvention in DEMentia), Alzheimer Europe, Alzheimer’s Disease International, European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, and 9 signatories in the Lancet (23 October).
The authors stress the importance of research into dementia risk reduction and make a plea for “large, definitive, multicentre, international randomised controlled studies of lifestyle-based interventions to investigate how far risk factor reduction can decrease or delay incidence of dementia, to which existing cohorts could contribute”. They call upon WHO and the World Dementia Council “to support large-scale research investment”.
See for the full letter in the Lancet online: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2900528-0/fulltext