signalsMarriage and Isolation and Divorce and Alzheimer
July 5th 2009 21:35
If you are isolated in midlife you are twice more likely to develop Alzheimers than those who are married. If you are divorced the risk rises threefold.
This according to this article. Although this is a step in the right direction, I think more study needs to be done and I base this on my personal observation. My parents were married for over 60 years and my father died of dementia. My friend's grandmother died of Alzheimers and was a widow. (Could being widowed cause dementia and Alzheimers?) My friend and his mother(the daughter) lived with her after her husband died until her death. She was in no way isolated.
This is why I think more study needs to be done on this topic, because as with anything there are exceptions to the rules. If dementia and Alzheimers are hereditary there might not be a way to cure them, but there might be a way to control them.
These are just my own hypothesis on the topic and article...keep that in mind.
This according to this article. Although this is a step in the right direction, I think more study needs to be done and I base this on my personal observation. My parents were married for over 60 years and my father died of dementia. My friend's grandmother died of Alzheimers and was a widow. (Could being widowed cause dementia and Alzheimers?) My friend and his mother(the daughter) lived with her after her husband died until her death. She was in no way isolated.
This is why I think more study needs to be done on this topic, because as with anything there are exceptions to the rules. If dementia and Alzheimers are hereditary there might not be a way to cure them, but there might be a way to control them.
These are just my own hypothesis on the topic and article...keep that in mind.
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Comment by katyzzz
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Good studies have not advanced on this, as yet, and I guess one's genes do have some part in it.
The older one gets, the greater the risks.
Comment by Wilson Pon
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We have made great strides in these diseases in the last 10 years.
Wilson,
Thanks for your comment. Also that might explain how my friend's grandmother had it...but my father died of dementia and my mother is in her 90s, and has a sharp mind. My father has been dead almost 10 years.