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Repeat falls are 31% less likely over a 10-year period when older adults receive speed of processing training, a researchers have found.

Physical activity, a factor in healthy brain aging, is part of multidomain dementia prevention trials. ISTOCK.COM/KALI9 Can diet and exercise lower your risk of dementia? Rigorous clinical trials aim to find out May. 27, 2021 , 1:00 PM For the past 3 years, about 6000 middle-aged and elderly Australians have pumped iron, loaded up on greens and whole grains, strived to quell stress, and challenged their wits with computer exercises, all in an effort to preserve their cognition. They’re part of a clinical trial called Maintain Your Brain, one of about 30 current or planned studies th...

What should be in a health MOT for over-50s? A free NHS health check will be offered with Covid booster jabs this autumn but it might not pick up all the issues that plague midlifers 14 May 2021 • 4:39pm 'Like many over-50s, there’s quite a bit of me that needs attention once you lift the bonnet; knees, back, hip – they all give me grief from time to time' The outgoing head of the NHS, Sir Simon Stevens, has said that a free NHS health check, or “MOT”, will be given to all over-50s as and when they take up the offer of a Covid booster jab in the autumn.