{"id":241775,"date":"2026-07-29T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/one-overlooked-sign-of-aging-may-reveal-dementia-risk-years-earlier"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:05:12","slug":"one-overlooked-sign-of-aging-may-reveal-dementia-risk-years-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/one-overlooked-sign-of-aging-may-reveal-dementia-risk-years-earlier","title":{"rendered":"One overlooked sign of aging may reveal dementia risk years earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-overlooked-sign-of-aging-may-reveal-dementia-risk-years-earlier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frailty was assessed using a frailty index, which takes into account a wide range of health and functional measures. Researchers classified participants with scores of 0.25 or higher as frail.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that frailty was associated with developing dementia at a younger age. Overall, frail individuals received a dementia diagnosis approximately two to three years earlier than those who were not frail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best approach to preventing or reducing frailty is a combination of regular physical activity, particularly strength training, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/common-snack-foods-frail-health-aging-1911849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a diet that ensures adequate protein intake<\/a>,\u201d study co-author Dr. David Ward, a research fellow in aging and geriatric medicine at the Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland, told <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frailty was assessed using a frailty index, which takes into account a wide range of health and functional measures. Researchers classified participants with scores of 0.25 or higher as frail. The results showed that frailty was associated with developing dementia at a younger age. Overall, frail individuals received a dementia diagnosis approximately two to three [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}