biologic factors, but the data is really robust on older guys. So above the age dementia. And I think this is worth pausing on which is a erectile dysfunction problem is a often a symptom
hospitals. We're expensive, but still less expensive than a hospital. Dementia is one of the greatest health challenges facing aging societies. In Europe alone, more than 12 million people live with dementia. By 2050, that number is expected to reach just under
As people age, their risk of developing the disease increases. Dementia is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide and a key reason older adults require long-term care. And this has significant financial implications.
What else was I worried about? Dementia. But if you take out that percentage of people living in nursing homes over age 65, 90% of the remainder can think just fine.
textbooks? Um, they actually play a role in the writing of textbooks. So we know, for instance, in Texas, where they felt that learning ethnic studies was too demeaning to America and the story of America where they really wanted to downplay slavery and so wanted to change the language they wanted to call enslave people workers, that sort of thing. Um, it is that you know
I had somebody who told me because I told her that the work that she did, I didn't love it, I was demeaning her. Demean by saying, hey, like, I actually think you should fix that, because there's this error. This person sees that as demeaning.
We look at volunteer activities, frequency of contact with family, frequency of contact with neighbors. Dementia is certainly going to be reactive to that.
And so as time went by, I started to wonder whether there was a simple mobile app that could help my grandmother and other Alzheimer's patients or dementia patients to remember events, stay engaged with friends and family, and to recognize the people around them in the same way that all of the things we set up for her would help her remember.
You talked about kids in South Korea who are gaming too much-- Oh, they're talking about digital dementia. Digital dementia-- I'm not sure whether . --or the effect that pornography has on empathy, for example.
And so I would like to say, that when it comes Thanksgiving time, and everybody's around the table, somebody's is going to say about their grandma, who's got dementia, oh, well who's setting up her playlist? Who's getting her her music?
It's not going to do anything for somebody who has bipolar disorder or depression or obsessive compulsive disorder or panic disorder or an eating disorder or an addiction or autism or dementia. But the neo-Freudians tried to apply it to this, and as a result who gets blamed? The mother. Frieda Fromm- Reichmann who was the psychiatrist in the well-known book "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden"
Then she says to them, let's focus on the purpose. They demean your ideas.
gives us a supreme dignity and value. To reduce ourselves to merely machines or on the other hand merely animals is to demean our value. And then where are you going to get value from? I've got a quote here that's linked to what you just said. It's from Yuval Noah Harari. He mentioned he says, "Humans
residents, or simply letting them be? How can people with dementia live with dignity? Hello, Ren. I was asleep.
By 2030, that figure is projected to reach 2.4 trillion euros. People with dementia are often denied their right to self-determination. In many countries around the world, patients in nursing homes that have dementia are still restrained or
We've been able to minimize these challenges by accepting and accommodating residents without correcting them. Separating those residents without dementia from those with it also helped. As a result, we've not only improved the well-being of dementia patients, but have also been able to reduce their
And they want to bring somebody in over me. And it's demeaning. And it's demoralizing. And I've got to go.
blessing and if we don't diminish it if we don't demean them by saying being queer doesn't define me being queer is just a part of me but if we take full advantage of the gift that it is if we
you get the limbic areas are activated. Because multi-infarct dementia has to do with just like little mini-strokes in the brain.
and into dementia. And what she wanted to know was, could we keep her just as she was?
for other forms of dementia.
but it is demeaning, perhaps, or dismissive, and the women feel like, ugh, I've got to figure out how to deal with this.
They're seen as demented or ghetto or gangbangers.
If someone has dementia, here are techniques and generally accepted ways to communicate or to elicit
They did not get demented.
misogynist um demeaning women in any way you should look at it as it's my
They're staving off dementia.
Maybe I didn't demean myself.
kind of demeaning, depersonalized, not very pleasurable.
Our whole health care dynamic is doing to or doing for. Especially with people with dementia. The idea that we could do with them is a totally novel idea.
And then your demeanor shifts.
a cheerful demeanour. And so people who have that kind of face are more easily elected, and they're better able to pull the wool over our eyes.
You're writing a demented children's book in the other room.
In terms of other demented children's books, can you recommend some more?
You know this demented voice that just takes over, right?
You will not demean me.
He has this demented sound.
Is it demeaning? I would just love your insight on that.
It's because dementia doesn't really exist the way we think it does. It's simply an end result of a whole series of insults and many different kinds of insults that can lead to
any way that would demean it, whether you're putting it in a song or in a novel the way Salman Rushdie did, or in architecture. It's blasphemy. I don't think Yamasaki knew that,
deteriorate rather rapidly and dementia has been setting in for her they're not
- We'll talk about that demented notion of things in just a minute, but only 11 leave. So there are four slaveholding states in the United States: Kentucky, and
degenerating with the ravages of of this dementia, but they didn't show any of
Yeah. Yes, but I'll get you a roll with cheese. Since most people with advanced dementia are no longer able to make such distinctions, you just have to see what works. You'll get it wrong 10 times until you finally get it right. We'll see right away whether a roll with cheese was
That's why your parents may have dementia.
And the second thing about dementia in particular, I think we discovered that people remember music.
And it was the change in demeanor that I had of "I want to do this" to "I'm going to do this."
It was that change in demeanor.
I think it was his demeanor.
I liked his kind of whole demeanor.