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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Now when anyone tells me of a parent that is in a home for years with dementia, I ask about the sports they played growing up or other lifestyle activities. It’s a fairly strong correlation.
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Unfortunately plenty of people get dementia who do not engage in risky behavior or poor health habits. My mom is one of them. Super clean eater, exercised moderately, always a healthy bmi, very little alcohol, no drugs, very few prescription drugs (although PPIs may have played a role), intellectually active, etc, etc. No sports/etc. Still got dementia. My MIL drank 1-2 every night, smoked until ae 75, never exercised, ate what she felt like (mostly sweets after age 80), and died at 95 from complicatons from a UTI but mentally sound to the very end. [/quote]

I hear you, but both my own father and FIL suffered dementia at the end (as well as anxiety and other problems when younger) and both played football in the 40s and 50s when you just kept playing even with multiple concussions.  It's uncanny when you read about pro players that died of CTE and then reflect on your own family...because they stopped playing much earlier they didn't go completely insane at 50...but so much of their progression is similar.

I guess the way to look at it...nearly everyone who participated in risky sports/activities during the "good old days" ends up with dementia and other problems when elderly, even though their family had no history.  Of course, there are others who had bad luck too.[/quote]

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