What is behind the unexpected decline in dementia?

Expert, unbiased reporting from Gaza, Israel and the Middle East. Try the FT’s comprehensive coverage for just £1 Sarah Neville in London Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stuart Lambie remembers the moment about five years ago when Alzheimer’s disease started to rob him of his father. As the illness tightened its grip, the “true gentleman”, who saw wartime service in the Royal Navy and later ran a successful business, became verbally aggressive towards the wife he had adored. Lambie, who had never so much as heard his dad Ian swear before, says such behaviour would have disgusted the man his father used to be. “It was just unbelievable that it was the same person. Well, it wasn’t the same person, it was the disease,” he adds. Dementia, with its capacity to alter and extinguish personality, rivals or even exceeds cancer in the panoply of our most feared conditions. Mindful of the dictum that “what’s good for the heart is good for t

Expert, unbiased reporting from Gaza, Israel and the Middle East. Try the FT’s comprehensive coverage for just £1 Sarah Neville in London Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stuart Lambie remembers the moment about five years ago when Alzheimer’s disease started to rob him of his father. As the illness tightened its grip, the “true gentleman”, who saw wartime service in the Royal Navy and later ran a successful business, became verbally aggressive towards the wife he had adored. Lambie, who had never so much as heard his dad Ian swear before