Imbalanced schedules lead to dementia risks: experts

Unequal distribution of time among day-to-day affairs decreases the time for brain-healthy behaviours and increases dementia risks, states research

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How time is used differently by sections of a society and therefore gets unequally distributed can significantly undermine one's ability to manage their risk of dementia, researchers argue, and they call for policies that allow an individual to engage in brain-healthy behaviours.

Essential aspects of daily lifestyle take up 10 hours — at least seven hours of sleep, up to an hour of physical and social activity each, and half an hour per meal — at the bare minimum, but it is not an ideal amount for maintaining and promoting brain health, said the team from the University of New South Wales Sydney in Australia and Ireland's Trinity College Dublin, which reviewed evidence from previously published studies.