[scotch_drinker]

I do love the old school design as mentioned in another comment. However, there is probably about as much support for brain training to reduce Alzheimer's as there is for low carb diets to do the same. [1] We just don't yet know the genesis of dementia but we sure can come up with solutions.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15082091

[robbiep]

We can't talk specifically to brain-training for alzheimer's, and we know, for instance, that brain-training doesn't work for actually making you smarter.

But the biggest protective effect against Alzheimers is years of education (ie >13 years of education is protective and it goes up from there). So it's plausible