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.
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"
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
you get the limbic areas are activated. Because multi-infarct dementia has to do with just like little mini-strokes in the brain.
Although, in others, she felt it undignified, and she worried about the illness's progress into the future, that she might go right past the border and into dementia. And what she wanted to know was, could we keep her just as she was? Well, as things develop, the question proved moot, because a few weeks later she contracted pneumonia and she quickly died, at which point
So you want to fill your plate up with as many nutrient-dense foods. for other forms of dementia.
And then what? You, your brothers, your sisters-- your whole family going to start carrying guns now? They're seen as demented or ghetto or gangbangers.
And so we can also do things like, oh, if this person has Parkinson's, these are specific tools and techniques you can use to help maneuver them physically. If someone has dementia, here are techniques and generally accepted ways to communicate or to elicit feedback from those folks.
It was beautiful. These mice-- not only did their brains look normal, but they also behaved normally. They did not get demented . And so this was in 1999.
They're getting rid of depression. They're staving off dementia. I mean, these are actually studies that show that babies just have this effect on us.
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.
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?
He has this demented sound.
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
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 that's when kind of dementia-- So challenge yourself.
But after my father was diagnosed with dementia in December 2012, I decided I was going to try.
I'm curious about what you said on the front end, though, that there's some research or nascent research showing that when you actually engage with an Alzheimer's or dementia patient in a way other than just telling them who it is or what date it is, that that can actually help stave off or improve their condition?
When you have some memory test abnormalities, but you're able to hold it together. And this thing that we call dementia is the very end stage of the disease, and this is where you now need help from outside people in order to get by day-to-day.
Probably, the level of A beta in her brain was, more or less, maximal at that time point. And it persists through the prodromal and dementia stages of the disease. Downstream of that is the accumulation of that tau protein.
And so this was exciting. These were patients who already had dementia.
And so this was exciting. So this CDR thing-- this clinical dementia rating scale-- was kind of a summary of patient's symptoms.
because anybody as you can imagine with dementia is very vulnerable to somebody taking advantage of them in in the in
struggles with alcoholism and suffers from dementia uh how do you appro approach the balance of bringing humor
And this is one of the most amazing things that this work has taught me. It is that people with dementia actually have something to teach us. We think of them.
OK? This is something absolutely new in human history. So even though somebody might have dementia, they know if you're talking about kid stuff.
They said that this book is almost dementedly inconsequential.
with but if you have dementia let's say and you would benefit from a smaller
Alzheimer's is a terrible disease but it's not typical of aging. And in fact, dementia rates are falling substantially. There are more cases because there's more older people as a percentage of the population and age is the biggest risk factor, but the likelihood
There are more cases because there's more older people as a percentage of the population and age is the biggest risk factor, but the likelihood of anyone listening to me right now getting dementia has gotten lower and lower. And people are being diagnosed at later ages.
of dying young, dementia, high blood pressure, all these things.
So if you're with someone who has dementia and cannot have the ability, does not have the ability to speak anymore, what do you do?
But I think the interesting point that you mentioned about dementia and music is that what I would love to see is how can music
For a split split second, I saw them all tumbling clear, the Tourettes book, the five second book, the homes and institutions book, the leg book, the dementia book, all in the wake of that wonderful death threat." A pause. Two beats. "And then the doctor finished his sentence." It's ironic that when he then did die many years later, the same thing happened basically.