DEMENTIA STARTS EARLY? The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Reveal.

“In long-term studies where people have had their cognitive ability tracked across their whole lives, one of the most important factors explaining someone’s cognitive ability at age 70 is their cognitive ability when they were 11,” the study authors explained.

“That is, older adults with poorer cognitive skills have often had these lower skills since childhood, rather than the differences being solely due to a faster decline in older age.”

They used to call it “second childhood” for a reason. Honestly, though, I don’t think the findings in the story are as strong as the headline.