Personalised lifestyle advice can stave off cognitive decline, three-year RCT finds

Australian researchers demonstrate the benefit of targeting a person’s specific modifiable risk factors.

Personalised lifestyle coaching can significantly slow cognitive decline in people at elevated risk of developing dementia, a three-year, Australian-led randomised controlled trial has found.

The study, published in Nature Medicine, suggests that interventions targeting key dementia risk factors such as physical inactivity and anxiety or depression may offer a scalable solution to protect brain health in older adults.