DEMENTIA

[samhexum]

Lonely and depressed singles are 60 percent more likely to develop dementia than happy couples, a new study has found.

 

Experts studied 6,677 people, between the ages of 52 and 90, for six years looking for links between close relationships and conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

 

And the astonishing results showed that people who are married or live with a partner are less likely to develop dementia.

 

Professor Eef Hogervorst of Loughborough University, Leicestershire, suggested that the poor health habits of single men could help explain the results.

 

He said: “It might be because married men have healthier lifestyles — better diets, less alcohol, less smoking and earlier health services visits.

 

“It could be that married couples will try to cope with dementia symptoms before health services are involved.”

 

The study also showed that single people were more likely to get depressed and suffer from heart disease.

 

Professor Hogervorst said: “We know depression and heart disease are risk factors for dementia.

 

“And loneliness had a similar strength of association as the heart disease risk factors.

 

“We are social creatures and reduction of stress through social support may be more important than previously thought.”

[+ Gar1eth]

Lovely, I’m doomed. On the other hand my parents had a pretty good marriage, and my father still died of Alzheimer’s-more of a euthanasia situation. But he was going steadily downhill over the last month or two.

 

Gman

[samhexum]

Lovely, I’m doomed. On the other hand my parents had a pretty good marriage, and my father still died of Alzheimer’s-more of a euthanasia situation. But he was going steadily downhill over the last month or two. Gman

 

I should already be misplacing my keys and getting lost driving home from the supermarket around the corner.

[Chuckball]

This is why escort fees should be covered by health insurance.

[+ Gar1eth]

I should already be misplacing my keys and getting lost driving home from the supermarket around the corner.

 

 

They still let you drive in your condition?

 

Gman

[+ sniper]

Dementia isn't just Alzheimer's. There is also vascular dementia caused by poor blood flow. Seems likely that given the increased heart risk that's what it is.

[+ Gar1eth]

Dementia isn't just Alzheimer's. There is also vascular dementia caused by poor blood flow. Seems likely that given the increased heart risk that's what it is.

 

There are lots of causes of dementia. There are drug related-either overmedicated or a bad reaction to drugs. You can have multiple mini strokes which over time can have a cumulative effect. You can have brain damage from injury or cancer. Severe vitamin deficiencies. Certain infections. Etc.

 

Gman

[samhexum]

A German man took parking lot forgetfulness to a whole new level — misplacing his Volkswagen for 20 years.

 

The unidentified 76-year-old reported to Frankfurt police back in 1997 that his Passat had been pilfered, but it turns he had merely forgotten where he parked the car, the Augsburger Allgemeine reported.

 

He was finally reunited with the long-lost automobile, which was found rusting away in the garage of an industrial building slated to be demolished.

 

Police were able to track down the owner and reunite him with the vehicle, according to the news outlet.

 

Unfortunately for the man, though, the car was in no shape to provide Fahrvergnügen — or “driving enjoyment,” as described in an old ad campaign — and was sent to the junkyard to be scrapped.

[+ Avalon]

This is why escort fees should be covered by health insurance.

 

That is an excellent idea! Sex is necessary for physical and mental well being. That should have been included in Obamacare. If it were there would be no one wanting to repeal it!

[samhexum]

For years -- perhaps even decades, Donald Trump has been known for being brash, outspoken and easily confrontational. Those traits have been criticized by some and applauded by many as part of his frank and no-nonsense approach to his career and life in the White House.

 

But a doctor who specializes in brain injury medicine has suggested in a new article that those very behaviors could indicate that the president suffers from a “degenerative brain disorder" and that he should be tested.

 

“I see worrisome symptoms that fall into three main categories: problems with language and executive function; problems with social cognition and behavior; and problems with memory, attention, and concentration,” Dr. Ford Vox wrote in a piece published by the medical news site STAT last week.

 

Vox names a series of specific examples from his time on the campaign trail and in office as signs of a bigger medical problem, including fragmented and repetitive speech patterns, the battles he engaged some Gold Star families in -- and even his regular claim that millions of illegal votes were cast for rival Hillary Clinton, which has not been substantiated by any reputable reporting.

 

"I see worrisome symptoms that fall into three main categories: problems with language and executive function; problems with social cognition and behavior; and problems with memory, attention, and concentration," he writes. "None of these are symptoms of being a bad or mean person. Nor do they require spelunking into the depths of his psyche to understand. Instead, they raise concern for a neurocognitive disease process in the same sense that wheezing raises the alarm for asthma."

 

"It’s time to discuss these issues in a clinical context…even if the president has a physical exam early next year and releases the records, as announced by the White House, what he really needs is thorough cognitive testing,” he continues.

 

He also acknowledges that the evidence provided is not sufficient for a diagnosis, which is why he advocates testing.

 

"It’s entirely possible that the president does not have predementia or is not progressing toward dementia. But he is definitely behaving as such," he adds.

 

Vox joins a small, but growing chorus of medical experts who have spoke out about the president's behavior in clinical terms.

 

Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee has written two editorials on the matter in the past weeks, one for NBC and another in The New York Times, stressing the need for medical testing in both instances.

 

“Trump has already exceeded our usual threshold for evaluation," Lee claimed in his piece for NBC.

 

If reports are accurate, the behaviors may not not gone unnoticed inside the White House either.

 

Most recently, Trump's "Art of the Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz said during an interview on MSNBC that a number of White House officials have expressed concerns about Trump’s “mental health."

 

“I know that two different people from the White House ― or at least saying that they were from the White House and that turned out to be a White House number ― have called somebody I know in the last several weeks to say, ‘We are deeply concerned about his mental health,'" he said.

[jjkrkwood]

That is an excellent idea! Sex is necessary for physical and mental well being. That should have been included in Obamacare. If it were there would be no one wanting to repeal it!

 

 

I'll settle for healthcare just covering the FULL cost of Viagra