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Cognitive decline is a staircase rather than a slope: the big drops happen after episodes of serious illness.

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dementia Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cognitive decline: what raises the risk, what is preventable, and what ageing well protects.

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  1. Tommy Wood

    Associate professor at the University of Washington

    cognitive function doesn't just decline sort of linearly or steadily with age. It goes down, you know, a little bit on average, but the biggest decreases sort of happen stepwise after periods of significant illness.

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