Can a shingles shot help prevent memory problems?

Getting the shingles shot when you're 65 or older might help lower your chances of developing dementia by about a third over the next several years.

Getting the shingles shot might help lower your risk of getting dementia later in life — a big study found people who got the vaccine were about 31% less likely to develop dementia than those who didn’t.

Getting the shingles shot might lower your chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease by about a quarter to a third when you’re 65 or older — at least, that’s what some big health studies have noticed.

Getting the shingles vaccine doesn’t seem to help or hurt one racial group more than another when it comes to avoiding dementia in older U.S. veterans.

Getting the shingles shot might help lower your risk of dementia, and this benefit isn’t just because people who got the shot didn’t get shingles later or didn’t take antiviral drugs — it’s something else about the vaccine itself.