Aug 5, 2020 05:06 AM
Study: dementia rates have steadily fallen in US, Europe
https://www.newsmax.com/us/europe-rates-...id/980584/
Rates of dementia have steadily fallen over the past 25 years, specifically in the U.S. and Europe, according to a study released Monday in the journal Neurology, "Twenty-seven-year time trends in dementia incidence in Europe and the United States."
Baby boomers are experiencing greater cognitive decline than previous generations, study finds
https://gizmodo.com/baby-boomers-are-exp...1844606699
EXCERPTS: . . . Baby boomers are experiencing a sharper drop in cognitive function as they age, relative to previous generations. The findings not only suggest that boomers will be more likely to develop conditions like dementia than past cohorts, but future aging generations may be at a similar heightened risk.
[...] While each generation before the boomers had improved later-life cognition compared to the one before it, the boomers showed a decline compared to war babies, breaking the pattern of improvement. “It is shocking to see this decline in cognitive functioning among baby boomers after generations of increases in test scores,” study author Hui Zheng, professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, said in a statement released by the university. “But what was most surprising to me is that this decline is seen in all groups: men and women, across all races and ethnicities and across all education, income and wealth levels.”
[...] This type of study can’t show what might be behind the drop in cognitive function. ... Improvements in childhood nutrition and health throughout the 20th century probably help explain why pre-World War II generations started to have better cognition than the preceding generation ... But baby boomers had these advantages and more, since they also experienced overall gains in education and working conditions. At the same time, baby boomers in general were probably exposed to higher rates of other factors linked to declining cognitive function.
“The underlying causes include lower wealth, lower likelihood of being married, higher levels of loneliness and depression, and higher level of cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., obesity, physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes, strokes, heart disease),” Zheng said in an email to Gizmodo. [...] The findings may also explain a seemingly contradictory pattern earlier research had shown, Zheng said. Baby boomers are already known to experience more chronic health problems than earlier recent generations did at their age.... (MORE - details)
https://www.newsmax.com/us/europe-rates-...id/980584/
Rates of dementia have steadily fallen over the past 25 years, specifically in the U.S. and Europe, according to a study released Monday in the journal Neurology, "Twenty-seven-year time trends in dementia incidence in Europe and the United States."
Baby boomers are experiencing greater cognitive decline than previous generations, study finds
https://gizmodo.com/baby-boomers-are-exp...1844606699
EXCERPTS: . . . Baby boomers are experiencing a sharper drop in cognitive function as they age, relative to previous generations. The findings not only suggest that boomers will be more likely to develop conditions like dementia than past cohorts, but future aging generations may be at a similar heightened risk.
[...] While each generation before the boomers had improved later-life cognition compared to the one before it, the boomers showed a decline compared to war babies, breaking the pattern of improvement. “It is shocking to see this decline in cognitive functioning among baby boomers after generations of increases in test scores,” study author Hui Zheng, professor of sociology at The Ohio State University, said in a statement released by the university. “But what was most surprising to me is that this decline is seen in all groups: men and women, across all races and ethnicities and across all education, income and wealth levels.”
[...] This type of study can’t show what might be behind the drop in cognitive function. ... Improvements in childhood nutrition and health throughout the 20th century probably help explain why pre-World War II generations started to have better cognition than the preceding generation ... But baby boomers had these advantages and more, since they also experienced overall gains in education and working conditions. At the same time, baby boomers in general were probably exposed to higher rates of other factors linked to declining cognitive function.
“The underlying causes include lower wealth, lower likelihood of being married, higher levels of loneliness and depression, and higher level of cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., obesity, physical inactivity, hypertension, diabetes, strokes, heart disease),” Zheng said in an email to Gizmodo. [...] The findings may also explain a seemingly contradictory pattern earlier research had shown, Zheng said. Baby boomers are already known to experience more chronic health problems than earlier recent generations did at their age.... (MORE - details)