Learn about brain health
A clearer way to think about brain aging
These guides explain what changes with age, what may signal disease, and how everyday life and community conditions influence risk and resilience.
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Healthy brain aging
What changes, and what holds steady
How thinking and memory normally shift with age, why people age differently, and when a change may be worth asking about.
Alzheimer's and dementia
Not the same thing as normal aging
The difference between normal aging, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease—and what those distinctions mean.
Risk and resilience
Two ends of the same scale
How individual factors, community conditions, and choices across a lifetime shape dementia risk and the possibility of resilience.