From advice to agency: making brain health actionable and equitable for middle-aged adults with mild neurocognitive disorder

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Hermine Lenoir, writing alone, comments on a review of brain health programs for middle-aged adults in a 2026 article. The review covered people with mild neurocognitive disorder and asked which non-drug strategies they can realistically keep up. It screened thousands of records and kept seventeen studies.

Programs leaned heavily on physical activity, while heart and metabolic risk factors got less attention. Most participants were urban, well educated, and women, and rural, poorer, and minority adults were barely present. No program reported designing activities with participants themselves. Lenoir notes that while changeable factors may account for a large share of dementia at population level, that does not mean individuals can simply will those risks away. Fairer, more practical designs are needed.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13572748