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Posted on 06/09/2009 6:06:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
The simple test that can spot Alzheimer's in five minutes
By JENNY HOPE 10th June 2009
Doctors have devised a memory test which doubles the chances of detecting early dementia.
The Test Your Memory (TYM) method is so simple that patients could be taught to do it themselves.
It takes just five minutes to carry out and detects 93 per cent of cases of Alzheimer's, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal online.
Twice as effective: The Test Your Memory method doubles the chances of detecting early dementia
This makes it almost twice as effective as the existing test - which is also more complex and takes longer to do - at detecting which people need further investigation.
The TYM test assesses those with memory problems on ten measures, including copying a sentence, calculations, verbal fluency and recall of a copied sentence. The researchers looked at 540 people aged 18 to 95 without memory problems, and 139 patients attending a memory clinic for dementia or mild cognitive impairment.
Healthy volunteers gained an average score of 47 out of 50 on the TYM test. Patients with Alzheimer's disease had consistently lower marks, with an average score of 33 out of 50.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A David Letterman monologue.
Joe Biden?
At my age, I’m afraid to know the answer.......
Oh, I get it...
Quick! give this to Congress, starting with Pelosi and Feinstein and moving right along to Reid, Dodd and Biden!
My life’s goal and plan is to slip seamlessly from ADD right on into Alzheimer’s without some confusing period of normalcy. I guess my Dad had it, but, honestly, he wasn’t unhappy and half the time he had smarter answers to things than people around him did anyway. And he never stopped being funny. We lost him May 1st of this year, but, unlike what many others have experienced, he was still “with us” for the most part until he went home with the Lord. We were very blessed.
I am vaguely worried and disturbed by this article, but I seem to have forgotten what it was about so everything is fine.
What’s this article about again?
What article?
Brilliant. Conan could use you.
And I am sorry to hear about your dad...I'm sure I would have liked him.
They say that the memory is the first thing to go...
I can’t remember what came second. ;-P
Three elderly men are at the doctor's office for a memory test. The doctor asks the first man, "What is three times three?" "274," is his reply. The doctor rolls his eyes and looks up at the ceiling, and says to the second man, "It's your turn. What is three times three?" "Tuesday," replies the second man. The doctor shakes his head sadly, then asks the third man, "Okay, your turn. What's three times three?" "Nine," says the third man. "That's great!" says the doctor. "How did you get that?" "Simple," he says, "just subtract 274 from Tuesday."
Bless you. I lost my pop a year ago. Even when he “lost his mind” he was smarter than most people. That was our family joke. Of course the worst part was he was very aware he was losing his memory so he was deeply troubled about it. Some people probably have dementia or Alzheimers but they were so dumb in the first place, nobody notices.
Simple four-question computer test for Old Timers Disease (as my neighbor called it):
Where is the E on my keyboard?
Where is my keyboard?
What is a keyboard?
What?
I wish I could remember if I walked to school or carried my lunch?
That reminded me of a joke.
A 93 year old man visits his doctor presenting with pain in his right hip. After a thorough exam, the patient says, “So, doc, what’s wrong with my hip?” Doc says, “Nothing. Your hip is 93 years old, it’s going to hurt.” Guy says, “Well my other hip is 93 and it feels fine.”
Did you ever see the cool poem about the 9 stages of a man’s life?
I’ll try to put the ditto marks so it looks decent on here:
The Nine Stages of Man
Not old enough to know better
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It didn’t work - I typed ditto marks but the thing reformatted.
it goes like this, but you just use dittos so only the first line has words. It’s very cute.
Not Old Enough to Know Better
Old Enough to Know Better
Not Old Enough to Know
Old Enough to Know
Not Old Enough
Old Enough
Not Old
Old
Not
later read
Thailand.
Rationing - one of the hallmarks of socialism. Coming here soon.
Is that the test?
I am sorry for your loss. :O( It was horrible when my father died as his kids and grandkids loved him so much...he was a great father as I am sure yours was also...He also was a witty man. Perhaps the sense of humor is the last to go...we can all hope for that anyway...personally I want to slip from a shot of bourbon to death. no in between...
What were we talking about? I forgot too.
Well, one doctor was trying to show him he was losing his memory and asked him to name his grandchildren. Gee, there were only 21 of them and 10 great-grandchildren! Anyway, he says to the doc, “Their parents know their names. I don’t need to.” Pretty much end of problem there, huh?
Memory and cognition problems can be caused by a lot of things. In older people, it is often caused by hypothyroidism, not enough thyroid hormone, pernicious anemia caused by inability to absorb Vitamin B-12, overmedication, etc.
However, there is a smell test specific to Alzheimer’s disease, that can help identify that particular problem. It consists of ten common smells—lemon, strawberry, smoke, soap, menthol, clove, pineapple, natural gas, lilac and leather.
If someone without other problems that inhibit smell can’t smell several of these, or misinterprets the smells as some other smell, it is strongly indicative of Alzheimer’s disease.
Ironically, in schizophrenics, which in many ways is a disease just the opposite of Alzheimer’s, and mutually exclusive with it, the sense of smell is also confused, but different smells are reinterpreted as from something else. An orange, for example, smells like pizza.
Thanks and I’m sure you would have liked him. Everybody did. I’d apply for a job with Conan, but I think it would turn out to be a “temp job”. Hell, it might not be more than a “summer job”.
would you mind repeating that?
Uhm, ahem, doesn't it though?
I'll bet you'll forget!
Thanks for your kind words. A friend of mine here in Nashville has a song “I’m Gonna Drink Less” - so I can live longer and that way I can drink more. Good sound long-term health planning, I’d say.
Like Bill Cosby says, “why should I be afraid of senility? I won’t know it!”
I thought it was just the “vote democrat” thing that was a sure sign.
“Some people probably have dementia or Alzheimers but they were so dumb in the first place, nobody notices.”
Mostly liberals.
Tadump! Ching!
Am I logged on?
Me too!
Though I do feel more like I do than I did before.
This stuned my beeber just reading about it.
I'm afraid it is and you didn't pass. Sorry.
Seven ages! First, puking and mewling,
Then very p*ssed off with one's schooling,
Then f***s and then fights,
And then judging chaps' rights,
Then sitting in slippers, then drooling.
Robert Conquest, historian and world-class limericist. He's 92 this year.
The nice thing about Alzhiemers patients is they are always meeting new people
Doctor: You’re results are in. I have bad news and worse news.
Patient: What’s the worse news?
Doctor: You have cancer.
Patient: What’s the bad news?
Doctor: You have Alzheimer’s disease.
Patient: Well, at least I don’t have cancer.
It’s called a Mental Status Eval. Done routinely here in the US.
Good citizens always wear stout shoes
Did anybody bother to go looking?
If someone without other problems that inhibit smell can’t smell several of these, or misinterprets the smells as some other smell, it is strongly indicative of Alzheimer’s disease.
Ironically, in schizophrenics, which in many ways is a disease just the opposite of Alzheimer’s, and mutually exclusive with it, the sense of smell is also confused, but different smells are reinterpreted as from something else. An orange, for example, smells like pizza.
Interesting stuff - thanks for sharing.
Thailand. Now go take your pills-you do remember you have pills to take, right? You know what pills are, right?
(I dunno if this is sarcasm, or the words of a woman who has had to deal with Alz. I think it’s me being funny, but I’m not sure what funny is anymore. but don’t be offeneded...is that a word?)
If someone without other problems that inhibit smell can’t smell several of these, or misinterprets the smells as some other smell, it is strongly indicative of Alzheimer’s disease.
Ironically, in schizophrenics, which in many ways is a disease just the opposite of Alzheimer’s, and mutually exclusive with it, the sense of smell is also confused, but different smells are reinterpreted as from something else. An orange, for example, smells like pizza.
Interesting stuff - thanks for sharing. Ping.
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