About Clearhead
The dementia-prevention research, ranked for your parent and turned into three small things today.
Why it exists
The prevention evidence is real and public (the 2024 Lancet Commission names 14 modifiable risk factors) but it reaches families as headlines and supplement ads. Nobody tells a specific family which factors apply to their specific parent, what to do about them on a Tuesday, or which six tests to ask for in a 15-minute annual physical. So the appointment gets used on refills, the family leaves with nothing changed, and the worry goes back into Google.
Who it is for
Clearhead's buyer is an adult child aged 38–58—typically a woman—who has recently started worrying about a parent's memory and is already the household's de facto health organizer: she books the appointments, drives to the physical, and doom-scrolls about dementia late at night. She is health-literate enough to want evidence but overwhelmed by contradictory headlines and supplement advertising. She will pay for a calm, citable plan that tells her exactly which two or three things matter most for her specific parent and what to say at the next annual physical.
When I get off the phone with my aging dad and start doom-scrolling about dementia, I want to know which of the things researchers have actually proven matter most for him, so I can get him doing two or three small things this week and walk into his annual physical with the right tests written down.
What it does
- Your Parent's Risk Ranking
- Today's Three
- The Doctor Visit Kit
- Why This Works
- The Sunday Plan
What makes it different
Caregiving organizers (Huddl, Kindred, CareMynd) track meds and appointments but carry zero prevention science. Brain-training apps (BrainHQ, CogniFit, NeuroFit) sell cognitive exercises with weak evidence for real-world dementia risk. Clearhead sits in the empty middle: it ignores brain games entirely and works only on the big clinically-modifiable factors (hearing loss, sleep apnea, blood pressure, LDL, glucose, inactivity, vision, isolation), it ranks them for one named parent, and it turns the top ones into three daily routines plus a printable checklist for the next physical. Every claim on every screen carries the study it came from.