When we talk about skills we’ve built, or knowledge we’ve gained, we know that we have to use it, or we won’t maintain the ability. Learning a language is a perfect example of this, as we study and practice to attain some degree of fluency but, if we don’t find ways to use it or continue to practice, the knowledge fades and, often, disappears.

The Alzheimer’s Association published a recent study entitled “Brain Health in America: Understanding and Supporting Lifelong Cognitive Health.” It’s a fascinating document on many levels as it both lays out the “prescription” for brain health and shares data from a broad survey of individuals, aged 40 and above, as to what they are, or are not, doing/willing to do about brain health.

Data from US Pointer, the first large-scale clinical trial in........

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