{"id":24465,"date":"2025-03-22T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24465"},"modified":"2025-03-22T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:26:36","slug":"dementia-may-not-always-be-the-threat-it-is-now-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24465","title":{"rendered":"Dementia May Not Always Be the Threat It Is Now. Here\u2019s Why."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The number of cases will increase, but the rates seem to be declining with every birth cohort that reaches advanced ages, researchers said.<\/p>\n

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Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer\u2019s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed dementia, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m 100 percent convinced that this is in my future,\u201d said Ms. Presky, 70, a retired attorney in Thornton, Colo.<\/p>\n

Last year, she spent almost a full day with a neuropsychologist, undergoing an extensive evaluation. The results indicated that her short-term memory was fine \u2014 which she found \u201cshocking and comforting\u201d \u2014 and that she tested average or above in every cognitive category but one.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s not reassured. \u201cI saw what Alzheimer\u2019s was like,\u201d she said of her mother\u2019s long decline. \u201cThe memory of what she went through is profound for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The prospect of dementia, which encompasses Alzheimer\u2019s disease and a number of other cognitive disorders, so frightens Americans<\/a> that a recent study projecting steep increases<\/a> in cases over the next three decades drew enormous public attention. <\/p>\n

The researchers\u2019 findings, published in January in Nature Medicine, even showed up as a joke on the Weekend Update segment of \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The number of cases will increase, but the rates seem to be declining with every birth cohort that reaches advanced ages, researchers said.Joan Presky worries about dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer\u2019s disease for 14 years, the last seven in a memory-care residence, and her maternal grandfather developed dementia, too.\u201cI\u2019m 100 percent convinced that this is in my future,\u201d said Ms. Presky, 70, a retired attorney in Thornton, Colo.Last year, she spent almost a full day with a neuropsychologist, undergoing an extensive evaluation. The results indicated that her short-term memory was fine \u2014 which she found \u201cshocking and comforting\u201d \u2014 and that she tested average or above in every cognitive category but one.She\u2019s not reassured. \u201cI saw what Alzheimer\u2019s was like,\u201d she said of her mother\u2019s long decline. \u201cThe memory of what she went through is profound for me.\u201dThe prospect of dementia, which encompasses Alzheimer\u2019s disease and a number of other cognitive disorders, so frightens Americans that a recent study projecting steep increases in cases over the next three decades drew enormous public attention. The researchers\u2019 findings, published in January in Nature Medicine, even showed up as a joke on the Weekend Update segment of \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24467,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24468,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24465\/revisions\/24468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}