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In reply to the discussion: Please tell me why I shouldn't be offended. [View all]pnwmom
(110,254 posts)watching his decline. After he left office, they finally admitted his Alzheimers, and pretended that he had had an unusually quickly progressive case. But we all saw it play out in real time.
And now we're seeing it, along with his preexisting personality disorders, in DJT.
Unfortunately, there's a huge increase in the risk of Alzheimers when you're pushing 80 as opposed to pushing 70.
https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-alzheimers/causes-and-risk-factors
Most individuals with the disease are 65 and older. After age 65, the risk of Alzheimer's doubles every five years. After age 85, the risk reaches nearly one-third.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-important-is-age-as-an-alzheimers-risk-factor-98803
While the prevalence of a disease is the proportion of a population that is affected by the disease at a specific time, the incidence of a disease is the rate at which new cases occur in a population during a specified period. For Alzheimer's disease, the incidence among people age 85 years and older is about 14 times that among people aged 65 to 69 years. Another study found that beginning at age 65, the risk of Alzheimer's disease increased by 23 percent per additional year of age.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden