Learning new things like, a new language, playing the guitar or taking up drawing can strengthen the connections between your brain’s nerve cells. Even participating in leisure activities like reading books, a trip to a museum, & writing letters protect your brain from amyloid protein buildup. Keeping your brain engaged by learning new things even improves your memory- and who doesn’t want to remember where they put the keys?!
Let’s illuminate seven different Lifestyle Strategies that are scientifically proven ways to prevent dementia. Lifestyle Strategies are fancy words that mean the behaviors and habits you do, or don’t do on a daily basis. Your daily habits and behaviors can enhance and protect your brain and body health, giving you the power to BUILD Your Brain Health and live life with vitality!
Imagining living with dementia is a small consideration you can do to begin understanding what it might be like to be with it, on a daily basis. I’d like to share a story of what I have learned about what it could be like to live with dementia.
I never imagined the depth of what I would discover about living with dementia, until this happened.
