Good job. So you would view it as a useful gene. Is it dominant or recessive? You’d also want to measure the onset of this “wandering off” behavior. Is it consistent across Alzheimer sufferers as you postulate? That would go a long way toward supporting your theory.
I would formalize your ideas and try to correspond with univeristy scientists studying Alzheimers as a genetic issue or sociologists trying to help manage the disease for caregivers like you’ve been.
I’d love to read more about how you managed with your husband. It is the practical that often leads to the scientific insight. AARP would be a great way to get the information out and your observations are worthy of that.
Please keep me posted and FReepmail me if you rather not discuss this in public.
I’d just get started doing it today. Why wait?
Thank you for your encouragement. I may start printing up the several thousand words I have already written longhand, and I could forward them to you if you are interested. I don’t think it would be prosurvival under present circumstances. In fact, I think there will be a tremendous waste of resources until medicine finds a way to delay the onset of the severe phases of the disease. Also society can find better ways of getting some useful activity from early Alzheimers people as I did when I had him help me build a cabin.