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ELEVATEYOUR
As your loved
ones get older,
cognitive decline
may make them
more susceptible to
scammer calls. Help
them be prepared.
ASLCEARMT!
FOOD FOR A STUDY PUBLISHED in Annals of Together, these early signs of cognitive
THOUGHT Internal Medicine found that being a impairment could make someone an easy
victim of scammers trying to swindle victim of scams.
One simple way to keep your mind sharp you out of money or information may
for longer? Fill your plate with leafy greens. be linked to cognitive decline and STAY SHARP
A recent report in Neurology found a link Alzheimer’s. According to the study,
between eating approximately one serving those with low scam awareness were It’s normal for people to become more
of green, leafy vegetables and slowing twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s forgetful as they age, or for them to make
cognitive decline. The report reviewed or mild cognitive impairment than mistakes from time to time. At the same
960 participants with an average age of those with high scam awareness. time, be on the lookout for early signs
81 years. Over the course of five years, Scam awareness requires your of cognitive decline, such as misplacing
the study found that participants who ate brain to do a lot of work, such as things and being unable to find them,
higher amounts of leafy, green vegetables recognizing different personality traits forgetting to pay monthly bills or forgetting
per day showed slower rates of cognitive and understanding other people’s appointments.
decline. When researchers compared intentions. At the same time, scam “It’s important to remember that cognitive
patients who ate the most vegetables per phone calls can be difficult social decline can be slowed by keeping a healthy
day to those who ate the least, they found situations to navigate. lifestyle and keeping socially engaged,” Dr.
that the green-eating patients operated Patel says. During the COVID-19 outbreak,
as though they were cognitively 11 years “Some of the signs of cognitive decline we try staying engaged with phone calls or
younger than those who skimped on see are someone becoming more impulsive letters to friends or loved ones.
vegetable servings. or showing increasingly poor judgement,”
says Dipesh Patel, MD, board-certified IF YOU THINK YOU OR A LOVED
Regardless of your age, adding at least family medicine, geriatric medicine, and ONE MAY BE EXPERIENCING
one serving of lettuce, kale, spinach or hospice and palliative medicine physician COGNITIVE DECLINE, SCHEDULE AN
other leafy greens can boost your brain at Navicent Health. “They may also APPOINTMENT WITH ONE OF OUR
power and keep your mind active for become easily overwhelmed with decision GERIATRIC MEDICINE SPECIALISTS.
longer. making, planning, understanding simple TO LEARN MORE, VISIT WWW.
instructions and executing simple tasks.” NAVICENTHEALTH.ORG AND CLICK
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