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    Make Your Plan for a Healthy Brain

    The Brain Health Habit Builder is a free tool to check your current habits — like physical activity, diet and sleep — and make a science-backed plan to protect your brain.

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    Brain Health

    Brain Health

    Protecting your brain health — how well you think, learn and remember — is important at every age. Building brain-healthy habits can help you live better now and protect your memory and thinking for the future. Brain health is important for everyone, including people with a family history of dementia. It is never too early or too late to take action for your brain health.

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    Explore more about the brain and how it works. Commit to building brain-healthy habits in your own life. 

    Brain Health Habit Builder

    Use this free tool to check habits like exercise, diet and sleep and learn how they affect brain health. Create a science-backed plan to protect your brain.
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    Take the Brain Tour

    Learn how the brain works and how Alzheimer's disease affects the brain.
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    Healthy Habits for Your Brain

    Learn how these positive, everyday actions can make a difference in brain health. Find trackers to help you implement and maintain healthy habits.
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    10 Healthy Habits for Your Brain

    Learn about healthy actions you can take for your brain that can lower the risk of cognitive decline and possibly dementia.
    Take Charge of Your Brain Health
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    Get Moving

    Exercise helps improve brain function by increasing blood and oxygen flow to your brain. Learn more about this brain-healthy habit and find an exercise tracker to help you get started.
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    Eat Right

    Balanced nutrition — getting a variety of the nutrients we need across food groups — is important for cognitive function. Take a closer look at this brain-healthy habit and use a food tracker to see where you can make changes.
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    Challenge Your Mind

    Your brain benefits from staying active and being challenged in new ways. Find out how you can incorporate cognitive engagement into your life.
    Challenge Your Mind

    Our Brain Health Work

    See how the Alzheimer's Association is working to increase brain health awareness and impact through scientific research, professional engagement and public health approaches.

    U.S. POINTER Healthy Lifestyle Program Improves Cognition

    Results from this Association-led study show that a lifestyle program targeting a brain-healthy diet, physical activity, cognitive engagement and health monitoring improved cognition in older adults at risk of cognitive decline.
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    Brain Health Roundtable

    Leaders from health systems, public health and community organizations are working to elevate brain health as a public health priority and drive impact through a collaborative approach.
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    Public Health and Risk Reduction

    The Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Risk Reduction leads risk reduction efforts by working with state, local and tribal public health agencies to implement best practices.
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