Active social life in 50s and 60s could cut off dementia risk
Guardian - 02-Aug-2019Seeing friends daily reduced the dementia risk, but seeing relatives did not
Andrew Sommerlad
Wellcome Trust research fellow and old-age psychiatrist at UCL.
He completed his medical degree at University College London with an intercalated BSc in History of Medicine. He undertook general medical and surgical training in East London before commencing old age psychiatry training on the University College London Partners rotation.
After
completing a Masters degree in Psychiatric Research at UCL in 2015, he was awarded a Research Training Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust.
During this fellowship, he completed a PhD examining the influence of
social contact on risk of dementia and cognitive decline, which he was
awarded in 2019.
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