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- Evidence has shown that formal education, like high school and college, may reduce a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s. Research published in 2020 by The Lancet Commission that examined dementia interventions found 7% of worldwide dementia cases could be prevented by increasing early-life education.
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Jul 23, 2010 · A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia; a question that has puzzled scientists for the past decade. Education is known to be good for population health and equity.
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However, this has not been well studied. Although some studies reported association between lower educational attainment and higher dementia, these alleged effects of education may not be specific for dementia but represent an alternative pathway from negative lifestyle to increased incidence of age-related cognitive impairments [14–16].
Jul 30, 2020 · Differences in early-life education linked to dementia risk. Research presented at the 2020 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference suggests that higher quality early-life education is linked to better language and memory performance, and lower risk of dementia.
Researchers have proposed a number of mechanisms to explain the relationship between education and risk for dementia including: brain reserve, cognitive reserve, “use it or lose it”, the brain-battering hypothesis, ascertainment/diagnostic bias, and education as a proxy for a third variable (s).
Jul 26, 2021 · The contribution of educational inequities in early life to disparities in the incidence of dementia in later life is perhaps the best studied of the socioeconomic factors (Walsemann and Ailshire, 2020). The causal evidence linking education and dementia risk includes both observational and quasi-experimental findings in many settings.
- Cognitive Board on Behavioral, Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias
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It is never too early and never too late in the life course for dementia prevention. Early-life (younger than 45 years) risks, such as less education, affect cognitive reserve; midlife (45–65 years), and later-life (older than 65 years) risk factors influence reserve and triggering of neuropathological developments.
Apr 7, 2016 · In this study, we investigated how the operationalisation of education may affect the size and the significance level of the effect of education on dementia incidence. Our findings suggest that education expressed in the number of years has a significant protective effect against dementia incidence.
