had to spend time with my dementia grandmother for 6-7 hours yesterday, gosh it killed my brain cells… let me put it this way: the only reason everyone present is restraining themselves and not go berserk is not because we sympathise her condition but because we do not wish to be treated like this if we get dementia in the future.
She’s stuck in some kind of a loop and would ask so many personal questions, but just to repeat them a few dozen seconds later until you tell her to calm down and sit there quietly like telling off a kid. then she would start her self-loathing cycle about how useless she is to try and gain sympathy.
And thennnnnnn she will ask if i want to eat chicken soup and she would check on her chickens and accuse the maids and neighbours for killing her chicken when CLEARLY the chicken is there, alive, kicking and doing their autistic screeches REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…
also i’m low key worried about me getting dementia in the future because the gene is REALLY strong in my family - both my mother side and father side grandma have dementia weh…
I think these days you can actually find services to sequence your genes to calculate likelihood… But I cakap kosong because idk what’s the Malaysia landscape looks like for the legit ones.
lol, i mean assuming if that figure is accurate i literally can’t do anything. it’s basically RNG lol. I believe FDA fast-tracked dementia medication, which can only delay further progression of the disease. I don’t think it can be prevented…
dementia can be caused by single gene (simple inheritance), or multiple gene variants, or by interactions between those variants with your lifestyle and environment (complex inheritance). If it’s the simple type, and your parents both have the same mutation, you definitely would get it. Complex is less straightforward- you likely did inherit at least 1 copy, but it won’t necessarily mean you will for sure get it. In fact you may not even develop it. It does increase the risk though, and some say healthy diet and healthy lifestyle can reduce this risk to zero.
had to spend time with my dementia grandmother for 6-7 hours yesterday, gosh it killed my brain cells… let me put it this way: the only reason everyone present is restraining themselves and not go berserk is not because we sympathise her condition but because we do not wish to be treated like this if we get dementia in the future.
She’s stuck in some kind of a loop and would ask so many personal questions, but just to repeat them a few dozen seconds later until you tell her to calm down and sit there quietly like telling off a kid. then she would start her self-loathing cycle about how useless she is to try and gain sympathy.
And thennnnnnn she will ask if i want to eat chicken soup and she would check on her chickens and accuse the maids and neighbours for killing her chicken when CLEARLY the chicken is there, alive, kicking and doing their autistic screeches REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…
also i’m low key worried about me getting dementia in the future because the gene is REALLY strong in my family - both my mother side and father side grandma have dementia weh…
I think these days you can actually find services to sequence your genes to calculate likelihood… But I cakap kosong because idk what’s the Malaysia landscape looks like for the legit ones.
lol, i mean assuming if that figure is accurate i literally can’t do anything. it’s basically RNG lol. I believe FDA fast-tracked dementia medication, which can only delay further progression of the disease. I don’t think it can be prevented…
Unless it’s a single-gene mutation, won’t be super predictive
Ooh that’s got me curious - for this case when both parental lines have history, does that not matter in assessing likelihood or just not at all?
dementia can be caused by single gene (simple inheritance), or multiple gene variants, or by interactions between those variants with your lifestyle and environment (complex inheritance). If it’s the simple type, and your parents both have the same mutation, you definitely would get it. Complex is less straightforward- you likely did inherit at least 1 copy, but it won’t necessarily mean you will for sure get it. In fact you may not even develop it. It does increase the risk though, and some say healthy diet and healthy lifestyle can reduce this risk to zero.
I see, thank you!