Licher S, et al. - Within a competing risk framework, researchers measured the burden of common neurological disease in older adults in terms of lifetime risks, including their co-occurrence and preventive potential. They studied the co-occurrence and quantified the combined and disease-specific remaining lifetime risk of these diseases at various ages for men and women separately among 12,102 individuals (57.7% women) aged ≥45 years who were free from these diseases at baseline. Dementia, stroke or parkinsonism was likely to develop in one in two women and one in three men during their life. A substantial reduction in the burden of common neurological diseases in the aging population could be achieved by prioritizing preventive interventions at the population level.