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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]

Same exact thing here. Alcohol-depdendent, eating disordered, never exercised a day in her life MIL going strong mentally at 86, while my mother, who never drank, stayed active--but nothing contact-related, just tennis, never smoked, got dementia at 85. Her body, sadly, fit and healthy. That's the way I do not want to live. I read in his obit the other day that the founder of the Leap Pad went to Zurich and ended his life at 72 after an Alzheimer's diagnosis. I will do the same thing if that time comes for me.[/quote]

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