Conventional widsom always posited that the farther you went in your formal schooling or generally kept your mind sharp during graceful aging, you stood a pretty good chance of maintaining sound cognitive functioning in those Golden Years. Okay. But what to make of new data in the journal Neurology? Suggesting that doctors have to watch all patients closely for signs of mental deterioration, a study of 6500 people in Chicago, found no link between a person’s educational level and their rate of decline to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. While it is unlikely that this bit of fresh information will cause geriatricians and primary care practitioners completely to abandon previously established anecdote, the results of this trial do place the importance of sound preventive medicine as a reimbursible healthcare intervention. Hear that, policymakers? | LINK

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