Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance the NHS provides on the connection between heavy consumption of alcohol and the onset of dementia.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published guidelines Dementia, disability and frailty in later life – mid-life approaches to delay or prevent onset in October 2015. This emphasises the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle, including reducing alcohol intake and the impact this can have on preventing the onset of dementia.

The guideline is available at:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng16