My husband and I moved into our subdivision in January 2020. Homes are on 1 acre lots and the land was used as a cattle pasture from what I’m told. A male neighbor, 3 houses away, was diagnosed with dementia in 2020 and was gone within 2 years (I’m not sure which type of dementia). Another neighbor 5 houses away is now in the end stage of frontotemporal dementia I’m told. This has been a rapid decline over approx, 1.5 years. Now…my husband was “labeled” with vascular dementia in January of this year and officially diagnosed following head CT’s and neuropsychiatric evaluation. That’s 3 men, all over 70 years old… all neighbors, diagnosed with dementia within a span of 4 years all living within a 5 acre area. Anybody ever heard of such a coincidence??? Makes me want to move, but not an option at this point in time.
The number of Americans living with Alzheimer's is growing — and growing fast.
Nearly 7 million Americans have Alzheimer's.
An estimated 6.9 million Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's in 2024. Seventy-three percent are age 75 or older.
About 1 in 9 people age 65 and older (10.9%) has Alzheimer's.
Almost two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer's are women.
Older Black Americans are about twice as likely to have Alzheimer's or other dementias as older Whites.
Older Hispanics are about one and one-half times as likely to have Alzheimer's or other dementias as older Whites.
As the size of the U.S. population age 65 and older continues to grow, so too will the number and proportion of Americans with Alzheimer's or other dementias. By 2050, the number of people age 65 and older with Alzheimer's may grow to a projected 12.7 million, barring the development of medical breakthroughs to prevent or cure Alzheimer's disease.
FTD and vascular dementia have the shortest lifespan. Victims normally pass within 5 years of diagnosis.
I'm sorry your husband was diagnosed with dementia recently. I lost my mother to vascular dementia in 2022 after a 6 yr battle.
Wishing you the best of luck and support moving forward.toward.
In high school, I worked for a senior facility, otherwise known as Boulders nursing home. The residents could mostly get to dining on their own. The average age was mid 70s, and they were all somewhat with it.
Likely most of said residents died within five years of cardiovascular disease or stroke or cancer. Nowadays there is more “saveabity” meaning the person gets to continue their life to the point they experience dementia.
It’s not plastics or what have you that has caused more dementia. It’s that medicine has eliminated the stops before dementia while adding to the risk of dementia.
Did your husband spend a lot if time outside? What about the other men diagnosed?
Three on the same block is pretty strange and they wouldnt all get the exact same type of dementia because everyone's brains are different.
I would consider taking soil samples to be tested if I were you just to see how toxic the ground where you live is.
We owe it to are selves to keep as healthy as we can. To do are best to keep are BP and cholesterol down as well as we can to keep us off the meds. Some people it's just hereditary and we have no power there.
As far as chem trails, NO
Im interested in your husband medical history, diabetes, high blood pressure, meds, strock? That's the cause of much of vascular.
A few years ago we had 3 neighbors dieing at the same time. One was a 97 year old with leukemia, other was a 70 year old with lung cancer , she smoked since she was 15, her son was dieing also from drinking. Not related.
So sorry about your husband, and what you are going through. Welcome to are forum, seeing that your husband was just diagnosed id say stick with us and we will try and give you the best advice we can moving forward.
If you live in a 55 and over , of course you will see this happening a lot in a small radius .
What Peggy said is right, we are just all living past the age, probably that we where ment too. The medical field has learned how to keep are hearts and bodies going, but they have yet learned how to keep are brains alive.
If you live in an area where the average age is higher, then this increases the odds that those neighbors were on their way to dementia for multiple other reasons.
People can have all the theories in the world but unless these theories are proven through more than one, large-scale, mass-participant studies then you are just operating from your biases.
The medical science community right now is not even sure what causes dementia even after all sorts of studies. It is inherently difficult to study dementia in relationship to the environment because it is difficult to control the literal environment that people live in. And, how to do you have a control group if they too live in and breath the same air, the same dirt, etc?
Some dementias are inherited, as was the case with my Aunt who lived to almost 101 (showed symptoms in late 80s and passed in Jan 2023). She lived with her older sister their whole lives (and 20 of those years was with me as I grew up). They lived identical lives, even working in the same pharma company. Ate the same foods (Mediterranean diet), lived in the same homes (NYC and NJ), had the same friends, had no bad habits, retired withing 2 years of each other, etc. Yet one sister developed dementia and the other didn't. In fact the other one is now 105 living in FL with very little cognitive decline. This can only mean one thing: the other sister inhereted her dementia.
Their Mom (my Grandmother) also lived to 96 despite living with a smoker husband who passed from lung cancer at 77 (and worked in his own machine shop breathing in all sorts of fumes). All their 8 children lived into their 90s, despite some of them smoking in their youth. Some developed dementia very late in their lives.
If you have theories about the source of dementia then you should research whether environmental variables as a cause is supported by *multiple reputable and reproduced* large-scale studies. Then you won't have to live in fear for no reason.
As for "people in other countries" -- they don't do studies to the extent that is done in other parts of the world where medical science is a priority. Studies are labor intensive, time-consuming and expensive, so without a *reason* to do the study, plus government funding or grants -- they don't happen. Medtech companies fund studies because they have financial interest in the research and outcomes.
The causes of vascular dementia are known - strokes, high blood pressure, things that disrupt the blood flow to the brain cells. It has nothing to do with where you live.
If there was no chemical activitity in the area such as fracking, etc, or old gas station with poor cleanup, and so on, this is likely coincidental. As yet we have no idea if such things even contribute to dementias, it is all a moot point.
You are correct that it is bizarre, but such clusters do happen.
Many of the wives (if they didn't die in childbirth) and daughters who continued to live on the farm, passed at even older ages.
Perhaps the records favored the longer lived? Which was your relevant 'old country'?
I thought that was in Hollywood.
Based on what I've learned, farming could have a connection to dementia if the same chemicals or family of chemicals were used.
It's really sad to see how it is affecting him.
Just saying there's a lot of wild guessing in some of these responses.
The link between pesticides and Parkinson's is now VERY GOOD, but of course will require more and more numbers to study. One cannot take a cluster, move it, and see what happens when it does NOT live in the Central Valley. Same with asthmatic children.
The Camp LeJeune studies in which we consider it now proven why these guys got so ill due to the numbers and the specificity of the agents, are quite interesting. Accepted of course by the government in that we are paying a hefty price for it.
As an RN I am kind of the last person into a good conspiracy theory, but we have indications a-plenty now. IMHO.
Glues release novel types of organic compounds into the air that may cause allergic symptoms (glues used underneath carpeting set on concrete). Common in office buildings and homes.
Radon in lower levels of homes and office buildings. Home Depot/Lowes sells radon detectors. We had this in our basement and had it fixed. Radon can cause lung cancer.
Furniture & fabrics (e.g. upholstery foam). Halogenated Flame Retardants, too much of it can cause neurological damage. Home and office.
I can smell new electronics for months on end. Again, home and office. Hated those offices where I couldn't open a window.
New car smell? That’s the first wave of off-gassing. Open the windows, that odor is not good for you.
my first response below was we live in a polluted world . Nowhere is safe . It’s the price we pay for progress the past 100 years or so .
Another example of 'War, war, what is it good for - Absolutely Nothing'. A pity that the alternative can be worse.