Day #343
The Fourteen Risk Factors for Dementia
Perhaps the most important factor is social isolation. I really need to change my wardrobe when I play Pickleball. I’ve been told that wearing green socks with white court shoes might tend to ostracize me. My advice, choose your socks wisely on your first and second date… I got lucky.
The other risk factors are:
- Vision loss
- High cholesterol
- Hearing loss
- Air pollution (lung issues?)
- Cognition loss (unable to keep score in Pickleball)
- Depression
- Brain injury
- Lack of physical activity
- Diabetes
- Smoking
- Hypertension
- Obesity
- Excessive alcohol
Fortunately for me, coffee is not on that list. Addressing all of these factors could reduce the risk of demential by as much as 45%. I’m doing fairly well as far as most of that list goes. The whole social isolation thing could be a problem for someone like me. I don’t spend a lot of time ingratiating myself with other people just for its own sake. I’d rather build something.
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