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.
Researchers at the University of Ottowa created the online tool for over-55s. Dementia affects about 7.1% of the UK’s older population, and roughly a third of those over 85.
There is no cure or treatment for dementia but a third of those developing the condition could have delayed or stopped the onset by changing their lifestyle, according to the team from Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa.
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."
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