🧠IMSPARK: Personalized Coaching May Slow Cognitive Decline in Older Adults🧠

🧠 Imagine... Personalized Coaching May Slow Cognitive Decline in Older Adults🧠

💡 Imagined Endstate: 

Older adults at high risk for dementia can maintain or improve their cognitive function by working with health coaches and nurses to reduce their modifiable risk factors.

📚 Source: 

Yaffe K, et al "Effect of personalized risk-reduction strategies on cognition and dementia risk profile among older adults: The SMARRT randomized clinical trial" JAMA Intern Med 2023.

🔗 Link: 

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💥 What's the Big Deal: 

This is the first randomized clinical trial to show that personalized risk-reduction strategies can have a positive effect on cognition and dementia risk profile among older adults.👏🏼The intervention group improved more on the cognitive primary outcome than the control group after 2 years, showing a 74% improvement compared with the control group.👍🏼The intervention group also improved more on a composite score of risk factors, such as physical inactivity, hypertension, sleep, depressive symptoms, and social engagement.😊This study suggests that personalized coaching may be more effective than a one-size-fits-all approach and that modifying risk factors may prevent or delay dementia. 

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