Comments on: Another dementia warning

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:34:58 +0000

Welp, if AI doomsaying fails we can always fall back on this.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:53:04 +0000

Similar for me, R2L. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was 86. He had already set up a living trust with me as successor trustee. (As an aside, I’m not sure he actually had Alzheimer’s, as he lived another 12 years with only some forgetfulness and brain fog but no precipitous decline.) It made taking care of everything after he passed much simpler.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:22:00 +0000

Commonly known: but getting a revocable living trust is often advised to avoid issues with probate. As the successor trustee for my parent’s trust, when they passed, I had full authority to access and distribute their assets to the children identified in their document. No one questioned that authority when I had the applicable documents available with me.

Time and attention from a fully qualified estate attorney is not cheap, but using one recommended to us gave us peace of mind when we did our own revocable trust a few years ago. Probably near time for another session with her to update our current situation and desires. But that is something that is easy to put off.

By: a

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:15:41 +0000

Thank you, everyone.

Thinking on your thoughts has helped me.

By: Cicero

Cicero — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:47:02 +0000

Jimmy at 12:50 pm:
Decisions, decisions!
I’m simply going to lay those on my kids. 4 kids, my will says each gets 25% of my estate. And that’s it. They can choose from my art collection, my map collection, my furniture, my oriental rugs. The management burden will be on my estate manager, who will be paid by my estate. I will not be in a position to care!

By: Mary Catelli

Mary Catelli — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:43:12 +0000

The thing about Vitamin D is that it can be produced by the human body on exposure to sunlight and so necessarily correlates negatively with all kinds of problems that interfere with getting around.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:50:38 +0000

The other thing that’s actionable is planning your estate, getting your affairs in order, making decisions about retirement, future care and living arrangements. The problem is that these signals are so noisy that you can’t really make any decisions based on them.

By: RigelDog

RigelDog — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:42:19 +0000

I think I recently read about a study that found a strong correlation between getting regular cardiovascular exercise and a lowered risk for dementia.

No question that moderately intensive exercise and weight lifting are so darn good for everyone! But I had a couple of surgeries last year and just kept postponing getting back into exercising, such that I have done diddleysquat so far in 2026.

Mad at myself. Last week I spent a few days at a house in a lake and after I jumped off the dock, I found it was a strain to swim around to the other side. Being a decent swimmer all of my life, that shocked me.

Hoping that somewhat panicked experience will kick my rear into gear again!

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:16:39 +0000

I’m now reading a second book (of 3) of a Scottish detective going back to his kinda remote island roots, solving murder cases. The Lewis Man (Peter May — excellent write with some awards).

One of the main characters has early-mid dementia, and there are parts of the book written from his first person view.
Very interesting; yet a little tear-jerking sad.

My dad died young at 56; along with stepmother; but my grandfather was 86 and had started having such memory problems & living problems.

If there is any point to these Alzheimer’s warnings that is actionable, it’s the common sense: eat balanced, healthy food; some exercise especially outside with sunlight (even thru clothes); take some C & D vitamins.

Thru the summer I’ve been reading books on our little balcony that gets sun from about 2:30-6, so my summer tax above the lighter tanned legs is pretty good.

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:30:44 +0000

I did a search for “John Campbell Alzheimers reduced vitamin D”, a prolific video poster during COVID, a nurse teaching doctor in the UK.

Two of his video’s popped up, as well as oodles of news about medicine on this connection.

“Vitamin D reduced dementia by 40%”
“Dr. John Campbell” — one video 18 m, another from 2023 at 15m.

The accumulating evidence for the prophylactic benefits of Vit-D supplementation is persistent and vast.

A 2023 Epoch Times piece came up, concluding “At this point, there is simply no question that optimizing vitamin D levels is a crucial part of maintaining optimal health.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/vitamin-d-reduced-dementia-risk-by-40-percent-5182476

SURPRISE! This piece is a bullet point summary of Campbell’s 18m video!

One bullet point teaser:
“A study in a cohort of 12,388 persons showed that vitamin D exposure over 10 years could lower the risk of dementia by 40 percent; women in the study experienced a greater benefit than men.“

I read ABOVE much disbelief about correlation studies. Sure. Of course. But even the causal mechanism of the benefits of aspirin took half a century to discover.

Many if not most med treatments don’t know the cause — yet.

LIFE is too short. 10 years of vitamin supplementation like Vit-D seems paltry cost to improve the quality of older aging. A lifelong friend from age 12 said, “no riskee, no gainee.”

If you ain’t willing to assume a little risk, aren’t you already, practically dead?

John Campbell reviews study results here, “very likely causel” he reports, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U4CD1uKnZA
Age of entry into this study was a median of 71 yo.