Alzheimer’s Disease International
This is the charity I am supporting
World of Alzheimer Report 2023
Covers many aspects of Alzheimer’s but see Chapter 5, Preventative Risk Reduction, relating to the key aspect of maintaining Brain Health at every stage in life
World of Alzheimer Report 2025
Please donate to Alzheimer’s Disease International through my Enthuse link:
Alzheimer’s Research UK
They have some helpful information about types of dementia
12 Risk Factors
Research data shows various factors that can increase our risk of getting Alzheimer’s. This version is a set of 12 factors used by the charity I support.
I have seen similar versions from different countries that also include factors we just can’t change, such as:
- Age
- Gender (I have found contradictory ideas about this!)
- “A history of….” for example: depression, diabetes, poverty, low education.
So you will see in my ADVENTURES modeI that I have mostly focused on positive life-style choices that can be adopted and in doing so give us the best chance we have to delay and even avoid this terrible disease.
ADVENTURES against DEMENTIA
ACTIVITY and Well-Being
‘Just One Thing’ BBC Podcast Series with Doctor Michael Mosely … ’How simple changes can transform your life’
Activities for mind and body. A very engaging and entertaining series features Michael Mosely with expert specialists who introduce various simple ways in which we can maintain and improve our mental and physical health. Sadly, Doctor Michael Mosely died June 4th 2024 on a strenuous walk in exceptional heat on a Greek Island. Listen and try everything while it is still available!
Doctor Moseley is also famous for the ‘Eat, Fast and Live Longer’ series and author of ‘The Fast Diet’ where his ideas around nutrition and diet enabled him to become free of Type 2 Diabetes. Go to the NUTRITION and DIET section below.
His many episodes cover many ADVENTURES ideas, so you will also notice that I have also linked him under the various headings of Activity, Defenses,
VISION and HEARING
Alzheimer’s Research UK – Understanding the link between hearing loss and dementia
NUTRITION and DIET
SLEEP
‘The Matt Walker Podcast is all about sleep, the brain, and the body. Matt is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the book, Why We Sleep and has given a few TED talks. Matt is an awkward British nerd who adores science and the communication of science to the public. ‘
He will not make you sleepy!