Kimberley Wilson

It's not simply about age.

And then there are there's another interesting, very worrying trend, which is.

young onset dementia so there's early onset dementia which we do think seems to be genetically linked but young onset dementia which is when you're being diagnosed at a younger age tells us that it's not about age because dementia is typically an age-related condition but if there's something going wrong if you're if we're getting diagnosed earlier that means there's something going on with the health of our brains that our brains are aging at an accelerated rate

when our bodies aren't so much.

So it's not simply about age.

Okay.

And there's more of that happening now.

It's growing.

The number of people being diagnosed in their late 40s, 50s is increasing.

Wow.

So much.

There is so much that we can do.

Right.

The latest global commission on Alzheimer's disease says that 45%, nearly half, of global dementia cases can be prevented through changes in the environment and lifestyle.

Wow.

45%.

45%.

The 14 modifiable risk factors, some of them aren't in our own individual hands, some of them about like air pollution and things like that.

But other factors like your, you know, taking care of things like hearing.

So if you're hearing...