Dementia prevention support group formed; link to iPod addiction found

In this week’s NY Times: Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk – “A 21-year study finds that moderate coffee drinkers are much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.” A group of Northfield elders has formed a dementia prevention support group and they’ve begun to meet 6am daily at the GBM. Members are asked to turn off their iPods and place them on the table (continued)

in the center of the group for the duration of the meeting because of the likely causal relationship between iPod addiction and dementia among baby boomers.