Post subject: Obesity increases the risk of dementia

A new American study published in BMJ concludes:

Post subject: Re: Obesity increases the risk of dementia

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I have no idea what the connection could be between obesity & dementia.

However, I wonder just what their definition of dementia is - there are two dictionary definitions. "Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes." (this is often called Alzheimers Disease now) and "Madness; insanity."

Long ago, an old person's change from rationality to irrationality - ie doing & saying odd things & thinking they are back in the past, for instance - was referred to as 'senile dementia'.

So I just wonder exactly which of these three they are referring to?

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3/4 of all elderly inhabitants of nursing homes in Norway suffer from dementia, but only half of them are diagnosed. There are no common agreement about the clinical diagnostic criterias for dementia among Norwegian nursing homes.

Why are so few elderly patiens given the diagnosis in primary care and at nursing homes?
Lack of knowledge among doctors and other health care workers in health care institutions may contribute. But also patients and the people surrounding them resist the diagnosis, because they see no point with a diagnosis that give fear and repression and which that has no cure.

Because this progressive brain dysfunction makes the patient increasingly functional helpless and dependent on the surrounding people, dementia affects not only the people with this dysfunction but also their family, relatives, friends etc, that give them emotional or physical long-term care.
Since our western society has increasing life expectancy, the probability that you are a family member, a friend or acquaintance of a person suffering from dementia is not minimal.

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