• £1m Scores project to screen ex-footballers’ brain health• Retired footballers aged over 50 being sought to take partResearch into the link between football and dementia is to be intensified by a £1m study that tests former players for early signs of the disease.
The Screening Cognitive Outcomes after Repetitive Head Impact Exposure in Sport (Scores) project, run by the University of East Anglia (UEA), aims to screen former footballers’ brain health for evidence of dementia that may appear long before any other symptoms, such as memory problems, become apparent. It will begin in the eastern region but will be rolled out nationally later this year and retired footballers, whether men or women, aged over 50 are being sought to take part.