{"id":2441,"date":"2026-04-28T18:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2026-04-28T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:41:08","slug":"brain-health-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/2026\/04\/28\/brain-health-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Health Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alzheimer\u2019s Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/us-pointer\/study-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>U.S. POINTER<\/strong><\/a>* two-year clinical trial tested whether working on multiple dementia rick factors at the same time can improve the brain health of older adults. The Association posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/getmedia\/5d1826c1-1ddd-49ca-badc-44deed8eee40\/uspointerbrainhealthrecipe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>one-page <\/strong><b>infographic <\/b><\/a>that outlines the \u201crecipe\u201d for maintaining brain health.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the study on the Alzheimer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/us-pointer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>U.S. POINTER<\/strong><\/a> web page. The Association stated \u201cA majority of intervention participants agreed to participate in the U.S. POINTER Alumni Extension, which allows for four more years of observation to assess longer-term impacts of the study\u2019s interventions on cognitive health and dementia risk.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Two detailed reports were also distributed to NARFE Alzheimer\u2019s coordinators and posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/alzheimers-dementia\/facts-figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alzheimer\u2019s\u00a0Disease Facts and Figures<\/strong><\/a> page \u2013 <strong>2026 Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Facts and Figures<\/strong> (96 pages) and <strong>Brain Health in America: Understanding and Supporting Lifelong Cognitive Health<\/strong> (14 pages). Another resource on that page is the infographic,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.org\/getmedia\/5faf0a0b-d4e8-4a94-a988-b3408c9adb90\/alzheimers-facts-and-figures-infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>2026 ALZHEIMER\u2019S DISEASE FACTS AND FIGURES<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>* U.S. Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Risk<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association posted an infographic for positive actions that &#8220;protect thinking and memory from the normal decline that often comes with aging&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2026\/04\/graphic-stylized-brain-in-purple-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}