Research shows practicing healthy lifestyle choices delays progression. Increasing physical activity, eating healthy, limiting alcohol consumption, managing stress, staying connected with social activities and engaging in more cognitive activities are a few changes to consider.
Talking About Brain Health and Aging: The Basics
The Administration for Community Living discusses the basis of brain health and aging.
Brain Health: Medicine, Age, and Your Brain
While medicines can help you treat your health conditions, some can create problems for your brain. This fact sheet discusses why this happens.
Mediterranean Diet
Choosing a diet similar to one eaten by people living around the Mediterranean Sea may lower the risk of
cardiovascular disease and have additional health benefits.
Smart Food Choices
Healthy eating is an important part of staying healthy as you age.
What’s On Your Plate: Smart Food Choices for Healthy Aging
Research shows that it’s not too late to make smarter food choices and add healthy habits, like being physically active, to help reduce your risk of chronic diseases and the disability that can result from them.
10 Ways to Love Your Brain
It’s never too late or too early to incorporate healthy habits.
Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: Steps for Protecting the Heart, Brain, and Body
Memory loss that disrupts daily life, or difficulty completing familiar tasks, is not typical. The changes may be signs of early dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Challenge Your Brain
Don’t let age limit you. You have the ability to change your brain at any age.
