Worried about memory loss and dementia risk This new book will show you easytofollow steps to keep your brain healthy.Emily Clionsky MD and Mitchell Clionsky PhD are a physician and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents with dementia created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function and treated more than 25000 patients with cognitive impairment. In Dementia Prevention they combine the most current scientific findings about Alzheimers disease and other dementias with their experience to present a practical guide that empowers you to improve your brains future. This book skips the fads the unsupported claims of advertised products and fringe theories. Instead the authors guide you through a sciencebased tour of dementia including how your brain works and how its function is affected by everything from blood circulation and blood pressure to sugar levels medications vision and hearing. You will learn how your activity level weight habits mental outlook and social engagement may affect your likelihood of developing dementia. Dementia Prevention provides a dementia risk checklist to better understand your personal risk profile to help you on your journey. The authors training and experience as behavioral scientists will help you set better goals identify roadblocks to success and overcome these obstacles. Forgetfulness and confusion are not an inevitable part of growing olderyou can make changes to keep your brain working well into your 70s and beyond. From how you breathe while you sleep to what you do socially and physically every day Dementia Prevention will give you practicaland sometimes surprisingmethods for you to protect your brain.