This meme will never die.

/not that i don't want it to
//this meme will never die
///not that i don't want it to

My case of Alzheimer's doesn't need to be doubled, thanks

/I might start voting Republican

gameshowhost: This meme will never die.

/not that i don't want it to
//this meme will never die
///not that i don't want it to

That's good, because I've heard it will never die. Which is a good thing because new guidelines could double Alzheimer's cases, and that means the Alzheimer's meme will never die. Not that you or I would want it to.

Well, at least... uh, something.

joelybarger: Oh, wonderful.

/I work by myself overnights in a memory care unit.
//About to become a resident myself.
///Alzheimers is great. You get to meet new people every day.

Wait till they hide their own easter eggs!

Just remember to remember to forget you forgot me.

Is there some really good reason they want to do this?

[reads article]

Oh...actually, there is:

"We thought our best chance for disease-modifying therapy was to detect evidence of the disease and intervene much earlier."

As in cancer and diabetes, McKhann pointed out, if you're trying therapies "only in people who have advanced dementia, the chances of them working is not very great."

"We're worried that there could be drugs around now that could be beneficial but that we could be using them too late in the disease course," added Albert.

So if you identify someone with the very early symptoms of Alzheimers, you can give them treatments that might prevent the disease from progressing into Alzheimer's; rather than doing what we've been doing, which is waiting till the person actually has the disease, and trying to cure it afterwards. Gotcha. Makes sense to me.

Who are you people and what are you doing in my thread????

joelybarger: I've got one lady pounding on the outside of a closet door begging to be let out, and another just offered to sell me Ireland for $1000.

Tell the second lady you already paid her for Ireland and charge the first one a toll to get out of the closet.

Well, that is good news.

It is good news because the earlier you detect risk, the more risk is detected. Once the risk is detected, you can plan for it, reducing the risk.

When I was a child, there was no Alzheimer's Disease at all. People just got senile for no reason except aging. We have broken up aging into several new diseases and senilty into dozens of syndromes that weaken memory, logic and judgment. This is good. It is good to know things that you can do something about, or try to learn more about in hopes of doing something later.

The longer we live, the more of us will get Alzheimer's. But we will be prepared. We can start preparing now, by thinking more often and more clearly. One thing you might start to think more often about and more clearly is the environment, especially global warming. Because not thinking clearly about global warming causes Alzheimer's to be worse when you get it. Of course, that's true about anything. You could think about rabbits and it would help exercise your brain more than watching TV. Unless you are watching Bugs Bunny. Humour is the best medicine, except in the USA, where Humor is the best medicine.

We are all aging at a rate of one second per second, except for a few of us who are travelling really, really fast. Well, relative to the rest of us. We are all travelling really, really fast relative to something--the Sun, the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, etc.

It is good that we are slowly breaking up aging into problems we can solve rather than leaving it one giant messy lump of ignorance.

Ignorance is not bliss. Perhaps there are things one is better off not knowing, but that isn't true ignorance, because there are things which you can do nothing about, even with full knowledge of them. Ignorance is a positive evil, an active evil. Simply not knowing and not caring is relatively harmless compared to active, self-perpetuating ignorance.

Ignorance per se is not evil, but it often is so stupid that it looks like evil.

"It taint the things that you don't know that does the harm, it's the things that taint so."--Will Rogers.

I always have to stop and think "Not Roy, Will Rogers." A glitch in my memory which threatens to become ignorance. Roy had Trigger. Will had politics.