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Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests

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In 2021 there were 57 million people worldwide living with dementia, with women disproportionately affected.

While the risk of dementia increases with age, experts have long stressed it is not not an inevitability of getting older.

Researchers in Australia report how they analysed data from 62,437 people aged 70 and over, collected from three long-running surveys.

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English

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