Overview

• The MIND diet combines Mediterranean and DASH principles across 15 food groups with specific intake guidelines linked to lower dementia rates.
• Avoiding alcohol, combating social isolation, quitting smoking, addressing hearing loss and maintaining diet and exercise can together prevent nearly half of Alzheimer’s cases.
• Midlife hearing care alone could avert about 8% of dementia cases through regular screenings and appropriate use of hearing aids.
• Experts emphasize that these interventions lower the probability of cognitive decline but do not guarantee absolute protection against Alzheimer’s.
• Recommendations draw on long-term findings from the Framingham Heart Study and a Lancet review of 14 modifiable dementia risk factors.