Your dementia risk is higher if your spouse has it – but it’s more than shared lifestyle

Matt Bennett/Unsplash Partners do not simply grow old together, they often grow more alike. Decades of shared routines, environments and experiences leave couples with increasingly similar health profiles, a pattern long recognised for obesity, diabetes and heart disease and stroke. Could dementia now belong on that list? A new nationwide study from Taiwan suggests the answer is yes – but not for the reason many headlines might imply. The shadow of shared lives In this study involving almost…