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A lesson that could change your life, too, maybe even save it Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash We mark our lives by dates. Births and birthdays, weddings, deaths. Certain moments are riveted into memory whether we want them or not. Mine is May 14, 2024, 1:40 p.m. on a bright spring afternoon, the kind of day we upper Midwesterners savor after a brutal Minnesota winter. I was driving to a routine dental appointment. The planets seemed aligned, the leaves a brighter green, sky a...

We all fear dementia. And the puzzling question is how will we know? One way docs use is the Mini-Mental exam — a 30-question assessment aimed at finding missing pieces in the aging brain.