Routine vaccinations offered to adults may help protect against dementia, recent research has shown.
A joint Italian-Canadian neuroscience review, which analysed more than 100 million people, revealed both flu and shingles vaccines are associated with a lower risk of dementia in adults aged 50 and older. The herpes zoster (shingles) jab was associated with a 24 per cent lower risk of any dementia, and a 47 per cent lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
