Many mysteries remain as Alzheimer's epidemic looms

Alzheimers, Senility and Dimentia are progressive conditions! You must iclude in the culture, memmories, and not rev the environment up with fads, fashion, and the latest non-essential technology! When a person would watch television 50 years ago they would get up off of their couch, walk over to the television turn it on or off and turn the knob to change the channel, and sit down. One must not take that option away. The tendency in the human condition is to believe in ghousts. The person afflicted with this pathology should be helped by the proper authoritive entity. The political thing to do to generate all sorts of expenditures is to hire psychiatrists, implement more Nursing Homes, and propagate the accelerated use of toxic medications!

When a person would watch television 50 years ago they would get up off of their couch, walk over to the television turn it on or off and turn the knob to change the channel, and sit down. One must not take that option away.

Are you suggesting that 50 years ago there were fewer Alzheimer cases because people were more active, even if it involved no more than getting up to switch channels? I think you'll find a bigger difference between now and 50 years ago is that (apart from a lot of families not even having a telly at all in them days) people did not live as long then. Life expectancy has soared in the past 50 years. Norway, the longest-lived nation 50 years ago, had a life expectancy of 73.6 years; today, at 80.1, it's dropped to #13 on the list. Japan, top in 2010 at 82.2 years, had a life expectancy of only 67.7 in 1960. Sez the article, Alzheimer’s normally becomes apparent around the age of 70. More people passing 70, more cases of Alzheimer's.

It seems that there is some contamination in our bodies that is causing this epidemic that we weren't exposed to in the past.

Perhaps some time of heavy metal or otherwise which accumulates in our bodies.

Yo Cleo, you sound like your defending some saprophitic proffession, You have to understand that the elder probably believes in ghousts! You have to respect that and sometime entertain that!, It has nothing to do with the television it has something they did most of their young life, The physicallity, the spirituality, the flux of energy, THE MEMORIES must be living. The orientation comes! Jn alot of cases your dealing with despair, guilt, and reget! Smell the Coffee Cleo!