Researchers say lifestyle changes could prevent up to 40% of dementia cases. Our readers share their efforts to mitigate the risk
When Sarah Chester retired from a frantically busy teaching career, she asked herself two questions: “What am I going to do with the rest of my life? And how am I going to live it?”
Having been a keen cyclist all her life, she knew she wanted to devote some of her free time to being more active. But that was not just for reasons of general good health. Chester’s mother had first started showing symptoms of dementia 15 years ago, and she found herself thinking: “If I don’t really get my act together now, will I have the same trajectory?”
