Barry Baines

But I think what's very interesting, you know, Patty, is what you said, what those studies showed between the 45 and 65, you know, population.

I mean, some subjective decline happens, oftentimes forgetting things, if you just don't get too anxious about it, oftentimes it'll come back to you.

you know, that you will, it's not like it's lost forever.

That usually does come back.

But this is just something I wonder about in the younger population.

The reason why they may not bring it up is that people are very fearful of getting, you know, getting dementia.

And for the older population, Clarence is sort of like what you were saying.

It's sort of, as you get older, it's more expectant.

And it's more accepted in that way.

But when you're younger, I think there's a bigger fear.

Plus, I know that there has been a marked increase in early onset dementia.

And I don't know if...

um you know some of the studies sort of you know looked at that but actually personal experience i've had three friends of mine whose spouses all developed early onset dementia like in their late 50s early 60s um and that's that's against it's not necessarily alzheimer's but it's another piece

mary go ahead so i was uh curious about some of the links um and again personal experience my mother-in-law um before she passed uh had uh what was most likely alzheimer's dementia uh at that time and one of the resources that uh we found pretty helpful again i'm not wearing my doctor hat here i'm wearing my

normal normal person at was the alzheimer's association and they were very helpful both you know with information and advice and strategies and things like that and i'm just wondering how integrated the alzheimer's association as a resource for the community at large is and how you know people can better

No, I just wanted to, again, reinforce and build on what Patty was saying.

And I think when you look demographically with the population, eventually we have to hit some kind of tipping point.

because you're either going to have Alzheimer's or dementia or you're going to be a caregiver for helping someone with that and the percentage of the population that will be involved in that it just so I'm putting on my hopeful hat here and that we will come up with a better way to address this and it does need to be culturally sensitive because different

different cultures, uh, handle those kinds of family dynamic, uh, issues in a, in a different, in a different way.

Um, you know, ranging from no, you know, we, we can't do that.