Aging Support Group

Answer: False - Contrary to popular sterotype, dementia is not a normal part of aging or inevitable. Statistics will vary depending on the study, but most estimate that approximately 2-3 percent of older adults in their seventies experience some form of dementia, 5-10 percent of older adults in their eighties, and may jump to between 20-30 percent of older adults in the nineties. These statistics include mild as well as severe forms of dementia. Research concerning not only the treatment but prevention of dementia is ongoing and promising.

Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D., Webster University

Post edited by: Nevayda, at: 06/24/2012 08:42 AM

I'll be posting more stereotypes so we know the differences between fact and stereotyping fiction. The more knowledge we have the better expectations we can have also.

I am sometimes like a kid who has never grown up at times-simple pleasures are the best

Some days, physically speaking I wake up and feel like am 80-lol

I think of Maxine as I say my mental notes are now written down so I don't forget but then I misplace paper I wrote it on, and off my mind wanders as I forget things-lol