Deans' stroke musings: Now More Of Us Can Count On More Time Dodging The Dementia Bullet

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, May 25, 2018

Now More Of Us Can Count On More Time Dodging The Dementia Bullet

I'm doing as much as I can to dodge that problem; coffee, coffee, coffee, exercise, social connections, lots of salmon. If only our stroke medical professionals would come up with a protocol to prevent this. It is a sequelae to stroke and thus should be their responsibility, but they will do nothing just like they are doing nothing to solve all the problems in stroke. Depending on whether I'm like Cliff Robertson in 'Charly' and know how smart I was and will be declining. That would make me unhappy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/now-more-of-us-can-count-on-more-time-dodging-the-dementia-bullet/2018/05/24/f9f014f8-5f32-11e8-b656-236c6214ef01_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.39666d19e734

by Judith Graham May 24

You’ve turned 65 and exited middle age. What are the chances you’ll develop cognitive impairment or dementia in the years ahead?

New research about “cognitive life expectancy” — how long older adults live with good versus declining brain health — shows that after age 65 men and women spend more than a dozen years in good cognitive health, on average. And, over the past decade, that time span has been expanding.

By contrast, cognitive challenges arise in a more compressed time frame in later life, with mild cognitive impairment (problems with memory, decision-making or thinking skills) lasting about four years, on average, and dementia (Alzheimer’s disease or other related conditions) occurring over 1½ to two years.

Even when these conditions surface, many seniors retain an overall sense of well-being, according to new research presented last month at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting.

“The majority of cognitively impaired years are happy ones, not unhappy ones,” said Anthony Bardo, a co-author of that study and assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky-Lexington.