{"id":1226,"date":"2026-04-18T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:26:48","slug":"common-medications-that-may-lower-your-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/2026\/04\/18\/common-medications-that-may-lower-your-dementia-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Medications That May Lower Your Dementia Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/17\/well\/mind\/medications-dementia-risk-decrease.html?unlocked_article_code=1.blA.-0Sy.a9OhM2S_i21L&amp;amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Article from the New York Times by Dana G. Smith April 17, 2026.<\/strong><\/a> \u201cNumerous studies have found that older adults who were vaccinated against the flu had a lower risk of developing dementia in the years that followed than those who had not been vaccinated. In one study, the risk was as much as 40 percent lower.\u201d\u00a0 Read the full article as it identifies the vaccine and different medications that help lower your dementia risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some vaccines, along with heart medications and other drugs, appear to have a protective benefit to lower Dementia Risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2026\/04\/graphic-dementia2-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}