00:01The researchers looked at one million people in Taiwan and found that there was a link
00:06between being married to someone with dementia and developing the condition yourself.
00:11So we've got to work out why this is still, but the researchers have theorised that it
00:16could be one of three factors or they could all overlap.
00:21Those are that we tend to choose partners who are pretty similar to ourselves, so they
00:25might have a similar education background or socioeconomic background.
00:30Second, that we share habits with our partners, so we might have similar dietary or exercise
00:35patterns.
00:36And third, if you are caregiving for a spouse with dementia, you're going to have a high
00:42stress load, you're going to be losing sleep, your mental health research has shown tends
00:47to plummet, and these are all risk factors for dementia.
00:50However, the research did show that risk was lower in spouses who had more children and
00:56had higher incomes.
00:59There's not many conclusions as to why that would be, but the researchers said it could
01:03be because if you've got higher income, you have more resources to pay for professional
01:08care.
01:09And if you've got a bigger family, you have more people to rely on.
01:13Last week, the World Health Organization updated its dementia guidelines and established that
01:18around half of all dementia cases can be attributed to lifestyle factors that we can all change.
01:25So there's quite a few of them, but some include diet, exercise, sleep, alcohol, obesity, blood
01:32pressure, hearing, vision, air pollution and depression.
01:36But experts say the two kind of key ones, if you want to focus on a couple, are staying socially
01:43connected and being cognitively challenged with new things like learning an instrument or learning
01:48a new language.
01:50So these are all going to be pretty imperative if we can reduce the dementia cases in Australia
01:55because right now it is the leading cause of death here.
01:58The End
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01:59So you will be quyhael.
02:00The End
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