Dementia: Health Education

(asked on 23rd September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of undertaking a targeted public awareness campaign on reducing the risk of developing dementia.


Answered by
Gillian Keegan Portrait
Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 18th October 2021

No formal assessment has been made.

Since 2018, dementia risk reduction messaging has been incorporated in the NHS Health Check for all eligible adults in England aged 40 to 74 years old to increase dementia awareness and motivate people in midlife to make positive changes to reduce their risk.

To reduce the risk of dementia the Government recommends the following:

- eating a healthy diet as depicted in the Eatwell Guide;

- maintaining a healthy weight;

- exercising regularly;

- not drinking too much alcohol;

- stopping smoking; and

- keeping blood pressure at a healthy level.

We will be setting out our plans on dementia for England for future years in due course which will include a focus on risk reduction and prevention.

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