Across
- 2. Country with one of the fastest growing ageing populations
- 6. Around 75% of the brain is made of this
- 7. Mild traumatic brain injury, linked to an increased risk of dementia
- 9. Connects the brain to the spinal cord
- 11. System that let messages flow back and forth between the brain and body
- 14. One of the most common symptoms of dementia (2)
- 17. Most common form of dementia
- 18. What’s good for the ____ is good for the brain
- 21. Way to reduce your risk of dementia: Quit _____
Down
- 1. Person who looks after someone with dementia
- 3. Disease where your body cannot control its blood sugar levels properly
- 4. Sign of dementia: Changes in ____ and behaviour
- 5. Person to talk to if you think you or someone else might have dementia
- 8. Dementia in Te Reo Māori (2)
- 10. The number of New Zealanders living with dementia will more than _____ by 2050
- 12. Type of dementia caused by poor blood supply to the brain
- 13. What can happen to the brain if you eat something very cold
- 15. Thirty minutes, five times a week of this can help reduce your risk of dementia
- 16. Brains cannot feel this
- 19. Work being undertaken in the pursuit of dementia drugs and treatments
- 20. 10 ____ new cases of dementia around the world every year