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The mind games that could ward off dementia

By Boudicca Fox-Leonard
Daily Telegraph UK·
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Dr Tim Beanland used to do the Telegraph crossword with his father. Now he does Wordle with his wife, as well as the cryptic crossword. As a writer who has an affinity with words, these are the sorts of puzzles Beanland, who is the UK Alzheimer’s Society’s head of knowledge, enjoys. As he ages, though, he knows that he really should be challenging himself more with number, memory, visual, spatial and logic puzzles.

Getting out of his comfort zone, whether

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