Great post, Matt, and as usual you have another catchy (and provocative!) title. The topic resonates with something I heard last night. Rob and I were watching a heartfelt documentary a good friend recommended ("Alive Inside," 2014, recommended!) about how music "wakes" people up, temporarily re-engaging the brain. This has borne out in research. But then the narrator said that the US rates of Alzheimer's were projected to double in a decade. So I checked the stats from '14-'24. Looks like they did increase (6 M cases to 7 M if I understood correctly) but hardly doubled. Always good to temper and tenderize these assertions with much salt when we hear them.
Or find him on a podcast. He's a bit too "bro-ey" to me, but not as bad as some.
A point he makes is that age-specific incidents of any dementia is down, but we're living so much longer than even just 50 years ago, many more people are developing dementia overall
Ah, interesting--not too dissimilar from the stats about overall lifespan stats being effected by early childhood deaths in the past. Always good to dissect those numbers. I've added to my reading list, thank you (my library appears not to have it atm).
Great post, Matt, and as usual you have another catchy (and provocative!) title. The topic resonates with something I heard last night. Rob and I were watching a heartfelt documentary a good friend recommended ("Alive Inside," 2014, recommended!) about how music "wakes" people up, temporarily re-engaging the brain. This has borne out in research. But then the narrator said that the US rates of Alzheimer's were projected to double in a decade. So I checked the stats from '14-'24. Looks like they did increase (6 M cases to 7 M if I understood correctly) but hardly doubled. Always good to temper and tenderize these assertions with much salt when we hear them.
This is an OK-ish book to skim on the brain in this context
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593797817?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
Or find him on a podcast. He's a bit too "bro-ey" to me, but not as bad as some.
A point he makes is that age-specific incidents of any dementia is down, but we're living so much longer than even just 50 years ago, many more people are developing dementia overall
Ah, interesting--not too dissimilar from the stats about overall lifespan stats being effected by early childhood deaths in the past. Always good to dissect those numbers. I've added to my reading list, thank you (my library appears not to have it atm).
I like that people dismiss the huge increase in life expectancy with "that's just child mortality," as if child mortality doesn't matter. And, of course, their claim isn't true https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/life-expectancy-has-increased-at-all-ages