The Risk of Getting Dementia is Falling

[kernals12]

Since 1984, the occurrence of dementia at any given age has fallen ⅔. This is great news for seniors and their loved ones and for governments worried about a tsunami of dementia sufferers overwhelming healthcare systems. The study's authors speculate that fewer smokers, better management of chronic disease, and better education are responsible for the drop

[Max Rockatansky]

That's cool, too bad it doesn't seem to be playing out that my way for my mother in law.  My wife and I have long suspected she has dementia given the cognitive issues her mom has.  She recently moved in with us and we are working on getting an actual medical diagnosis. 

[kphoger]

The risk of having Parkinson's is falling.

[kernals12]

That's cool, too bad it doesn't seem to be playing out that my way for my mother in law.  My wife and I have long suspected she has dementia given the cognitive issues her mom has.  She recently moved in with us and we are working on getting an actual medical diagnosis. 

I'm sorry to hear that

[Max Rockatansky]

That's cool, too bad it doesn't seem to be playing out that my way for my mother in law.  My wife and I have long suspected she has dementia given the cognitive issues her mom has.  She recently moved in with us and we are working on getting an actual medical diagnosis. 

I'm sorry to hear that

Truth be told it has been a problem ever since I've met my wife.  We were at least able to making a convincing argument to my mother in law fairly recently that she couldn't take of herself anymore.  She was living alone in Firebaugh with her dog.   Both had lost a dangerous amount of weight.

[kernals12]

It's all the more remarkable this has happened when we know so little about dementia. And we may be in for further declines, apparently GLP-1 drugs reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's.

It's also incredible just how unhealthy smoking is for you, not just for your lungs, but for your heart, skin, and brain.

[SectorZ]

A lot of things are going to become a lot more rare as the amount of people who smoke approaches zero. I likely lost my dad to smoking (bladder cancer).

[Max Rockatansky]

Interestingly my dad who never smoked and very rarely drank lived far shorter than my mom.  He died at 59 from complications of brain cancer whereas she did at 67 from lung cancer.  It took about 42 years of smoking for my mom to develop lung cancer.

Out my four grandparents only one died of something probably attributable to tobacco.  My grandma on my dad's side got lung and bone cancer, she eventually died at the age of 66.  All three remaining grandparents were active smokers and lived into their late 80s. 

[mgk920]

It's all the more remarkable this has happened when we know so little about dementia. And we may be in for further declines, apparently GLP-1 drugs reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's.

It's also incredible just how unhealthy smoking is for you, not just for your lungs, but for your heart, skin, and brain.

The problem here, though, is that younger people (although a steadily declining number of them in this regard) are simply indestructible.

Mike

[kernals12]

https://www.healthline.com/health/smoking/does-smoking-cause-hair-loss
Smoking also causes hair loss. It's like almost everything we consider to be a normal result of aging is caused by smoking.