No single treatment for Dementia, but ...

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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… maybe many small relatively inexpensive treatments will help.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/health/dementia-treatment…
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“It would be great if we had drugs that worked,” said Dr. Gill Livingston, a psychiatrist at University College London and chair of the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care. “But they’re not the only way forward.”

Emphasizing modifiable risks — things we know how to change — represents “a drastic change in concept,” said Dr. Julio Rojas, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco. By focusing on behaviors and interventions that are already widely available and for which there is strong evidence, “we are changing how we understand the way dementia develops,” he said.

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The latest modifiable risk factor was identified in a study of vision impairment in the United States that was published recently in JAMA Neurology. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, the researchers estimated that about 62 percent of current dementia cases could have been prevented across risk factors and that 1.8 percent — about 100,000 cases — could have been prevented through healthy vision.

Other modifiable risk factors that could reduce dementia if they were treated or people modified their behaviors are high blood pressure, lower education levels, impaired hearing, smoking, obesity, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes and low levels of social contact, excessive alcohol consumption, traumatic brain injuries and air pollution.

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Both of my parents in the last seven years have had nightmares in eye care. Both have paid a price. Both have fortunately come out the other side of their injuries.

Dad a smoker coughed on the surgical table during a cataract surgery with the tools in his eye. He is almost 100% again in that eye, but the last two years to get him to almost 100% exact a small toll.

Mom had a pucker at the back of her eye. The older surgeon messed up. She has lost part of her vision in one eye. It did not cost her mentally. But my maternal grandmother had a similar vision problem. While okay in her 80s in her late 90s had dementia. The price might be paid later by my mom.

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