I think you nailed it above. The focus is on mid-life, long-term risk reduction: largely healthy living, environmental and public health risks rather than short-term clinical events that accelerate pre-existing MCI or subclinical disease. Most of the delirium evidence is relatively short-term.
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I think we are missing a trick here - why not address both the longer-term risk factors as well as do what we can to understand how acute brain damage might also lead to dementia?