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A new partnership between The Ottawa Hospital and Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is bringing personalized dementia prevention directly to the community through the launch of the Precision Dementia Prevention Program.

Des chercheurs de l'Université d'Ottawa ont créé l'outil en ligne pour les plus de 55 ans. La démence touche environ 7,1 % de la population âgée du Royaume-Uni et environ un tiers des personnes âgées de plus de 85 ans.

Selon l'équipe de l'Hôpital d'Ottawa et de l'Université d'Ottawa, il n'y a pas de traitement ni de traitement pour la démence, mais un tiers des personnes qui ont développé la maladie auraient pu retarder ou arrêter l'apparition en changeant leur mode de vie.

Could Ottawa become Canada’s – or the world’s – healthiest city? Today, Brigitte Pellerin looks at this city’s own answer to the Fitbit and other means of measuring wellbeing.

“We think patients have the right to their own information to tell them about what is going to happen to them. We still live in a paternalistic society where we don’t think the patient can handle that information or don’t think they should have this information.”

"Unhealthy behaviours place a major burden on Canadian life expectancies."

"They found the calculator can accurately discriminate cardiovascular disease risk for a wide range of health profiles without the aid of clinical measures."

“That first step that you take if you’re completely sedentary makes such a huge impact on your life.”

"People who are in high pollution areas like Toronto or Windsor will find that their new life expectancy will be lower, and if you're living in low air pollution levels your life expectancy will be higher.”

"It’s somewhat surprising given that there are regulations on long-term care homes and how care is provided in these homes, but it’s pretty apparent from our study that there still remains systematic differences."

"We're trying to debunk some of the myths that commonly accompany sodium by showing people there are several sources of sodium in their diet."