A study from Curtin University, published in The Lancet Public Health, quietly reframes one of medicine's most pressing questions: not merely how individuals can protect their minds, but whether the conditions surrounding them allow such protection to be possible at all. With 57 million people living with dementia globally and projections pointing toward 139 million by 2050, researchers argue that decades of prevention messaging aimed at personal behavior have obscured the deeper architecture of risk—housing, education, air quality, healthcare access—that shapes brain health long before any in
Dementia prevention requires systemic change beyond individual behavior, study shows
57 million people currently living with dementia worldwide, projected to reach 139 million by 2050; in Australia, 446,500 people affected with numbers expected to exceed one million by 2065.