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I know multiple people (both my parents) that have it or died from it. The numbers are ataggering.
It is an old age disease. A hundred years ago ithe numbers are not ao bad because everyone died prior to reaching the critical age of Alz.
In 1968 the avg life expectancy (M/F) was 66.6 and 74.
In 2018 76 and 81
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This was generally the conversation I had with my Mom's primary care doc a few months back. She's 82 and struggling with her memory. Enough that the place she lives is telling us she needs to get on the list for assisted living and/or possibly their memory care unit. We don't disagree.
He said "your mom is 82 because of medical interventions and advances in care that saved her from a heart attack she had in 2016 and with the drugs keeping her body going that were not available 30 years ago"
Drugs and various interventions keep people alive that would have died a more natural death previously. I question the value. Is their quality of life really better? I don't know, for some yes, increasingly for my Mom, no.