Checklist to predict Alzheimer’s risk

US researchers have developed a checklist that can accurately predict whether a person over 65 is at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease within six years. The checklist of risk factors like slowness of mind or movement predicted about half the cases of dementia that developed in a group of elderly people over a six year period, the researchers reported in the journal Neurology. Over 26 million people globally have Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia.