Six symptoms in your 40s and 50s can predict dementia 25 years later. This comes from a 25-year longitudinal study published in The Lancet Psychiatry, following nearly 6,000 adults from midlife onward. Here’s the part most people miss 👇 The increased dementia risk wasn’t driven by depression as a diagnosis — it was driven by specific symptoms, especially: • Loss of confidence • Difficulty coping with problems • Difficulty concentrating Loss of confidence and poor coping alone were each linked t

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