“The correlation was striking: the young women who had more sophisticated language skills — defined as the density of ideas per every 10 written words — were far less likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s or dementia five, six or seven decades later.”
Can Language Skills Ward Off Alzheimer’s Disease? - TIME (via katharinec)
I’m not sure if I’ve talked about this here before but I work at an Alzheimer’s facility and well… articles like this are fascinating but it just seems like some are destined to be afflicted. Family history and other such things. The most upsetting cases to me are those of our younger patients, under 55. The parents of these patients are lucid and sharp, but they are long gone, who knows why.
