Older people suffering from depression could reduce the risk of developing dementia using cognitive behavioural therapy, a study suggests 🔴 BawdenTom reports
“Older people are currently under-represented in psychological therapy services. These results suggest that increasing access to these services for them may be an important goal given they may contribute to dementia risk reduction, as well as being important in and of themselves,” she said.
Katherine Gray, of the Alzheimer’s Society, which funded the research, said: “Previous studies have identified depression as a risk factor for developing dementia, but this study is the first to suggest that treating depression through psychological therapies available on the NHS may affect the rates of dementia diagnosis up to eight years later.”developing dementiaThe study also found “a small but significant association between the number of sessions attended and dementia incidence”.
Of those, 101,452 did not develop dementia at eight years, compared to 4,617 who went onto develop dementia.
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