With the month of May hosting ‘dementia week’, it’s timely to consider to what extent our own behaviour may be contributing to the alarming increase in dementia and other neurological disorders.  Research conducted just last year at Bournemouth University by Professor of Psychiatric Social Work, Colin Pritchard, concluded that modern life is causing dementia at a younger age.

Appearing in the journal Public Health in May 2013, and reported in The Telegraph, the findings describe the sharp rise in deaths from dementia and other neurological disorders, in adults under 74, as an “epidemic”.  Between 1979 and 2010, of the ten biggest Western countries the USA had the largest increase in neurological deaths and the UK, the fourth largest in this age group.

Research like this is talking about you and me.  And our siblings, parents, partners, friends and children.  Isn’t it time to face up to the undeniable facts that our modern way of life is having a detrimental effect on our health?

Professor Pritchard was quoted as saying “considering the changes over the last 30 years – the explosion in electronic devices, rises in background non-ionising radiation – PCs, microwaves, TVs, mobile phones; road and air transport up four-fold increasing background petro-chemical pollution; chemical additives to food, et cetera.  There is no one factor rather the likely interaction between all these environmental triggers”.

Think about it.  Does that seem like a coincidence to you?  But there is action you can take to help yourself and now would be a good time to start.

Access the full Telegraph article here: www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10052486/Modern-life-causing-dementia-earlier-study-finds.html