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Up to one in five cases of dementia in older people might be avoided if problems with eyesight are prevented or treated, research has suggested.

According to the World Health Organization, there are about 55 million people living with dementiaglobally.

However, experts have long stressed such conditions are not an inevitable part of ageing, with recent research flagging 14 risk factors that, if addressed, could together prevent or delay 45% of dementia cases.


But while that work suggested about 2% of dementia cases were attributable to untreated vision loss in later life, a new study – considering a wider range of vision impairments – suggests up to 19% of dementia cases in older people could be attributed to vision impairments.……

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