Evidence-based prevention and treatment of dementia

[...]it went on to note that "a public health perspective should be systematised and viewed as a core principle in efforts to defeat AD and other dementias, rather than playing second fiddle to the search for a magic-bullet therapy".1 In the absence of such a therapy, the focus must remain on prevention across the life course, with an emphasis on public health interventions that aim both to prevent the exposure to or the development of risk factors and to reduce risk in those who already have several established risk factors for dementia.