Preventing Dementia and Enhancing Brain Health | Henry Brodaty | TEDxBlighStreet

If you ask old people what they're worried about, it's not the economy, its not even about Coronavirus (although they are worried about that), it's dementia; which affects 50 million people globally. World leading authority on ageing and dementia, Dr Henry Brodaty AO, teaches us practical techniques we can all employ to enhance our brain health and to help prevent or delay the onset of dementia. Professor Brodaty is a researcher, clinician, policy advisor and strong advocate for people with dementia and their carers. At the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, he is Scientia Professor of Ageing and Mental Health, Montefiore Chair of Health Brain Ageing, Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, and Director, Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration. As well as being a prolific researcher with over 600 publications in refereed journals, he is a senior psychogeriatrician and Head of the Memory Clinic at Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney.

[carrowxhex]

My grandmother just died of dementia last week. She forgot how to swallow food and water. She was 89. Most people in my family live to 103-107. I think it was because she didn’t socialize much, retired too early, and lived alone. The others worked into their 80’s, had hobbies, church and livestock until their deaths. Never

[VidiSensiVici]

We can prevent dementia by eating the right food, constantly exercise at least five times a week to build strength, endurance, and stamina, and giving our brains continuing education. For example, we must continue to teach the brain how to dance, how to sing, how to read out loud, to learn a new language, to play an instrument, to work puzzles, etc... The key here is to make things fun and that we must constantly learn to adapt to changes, build our muscles, swimming, stretching to be flexible, singing to train our voice, our breathing to have a young voice, dancing to be agile to bounce, to walk on tip toes, learning a new language or many languages for fun, reading out loud to project our voice and to train our eyes to see the whole paragraph, the whole page, breathing deeply to activate the energy to flow, letting God worry about things that is beyond our control, loving to be compassionate for other and to love ourselves dearly. In short, there are so many things to learn, and as we learn we will discover many interesting things, many wonders, and we make things fun along the way.

[ambition]

What do you guys mean there’s no audio? I can hear this perfectly fine.

[katesutherland]

No audio! What a shame, because it looks really interesting.

[akashpopli]

No audio but didn't matter as captions could cover all he said. Glad for this feature in youtube

[suzannecahill]

Excellent talk Henry- so clear and easy to follow

[bilalmughal]

there is some problem...video's voice! what happened with it?

[ofinnie]

I can't read lips, where's the sound?

[ginojc]

Well done, great presentation. Thank you Sir.

[lezleyd]

Uh-oh, my brain is not working. Can't hear it

[anniinthewoods]

Captions! No sound but captions do work here. Important Ted Talk

[westdakota]

You don't have dementia,
there is no audio.

[adja]

No audio when i just had one bluetooth earbud on

[YOURRAINBOWBRIDGE]

SOUND IS HORRIBLE -- CANNOT HEAR YOU
HAVE HAD NOT HAD THIS PROBLEM
WITH OTHER VIDEOS

[carlibasson]

Sound is gone, would love to hear this talk, but there is virtually no sound...

[mausplan]

funny, diet advice is totally against Keto which is often associated with improved brain function.