Didn’t get my deer this year. I’m practicing stalking pumpkins.
I watched my husband’s slow death from Alzheimers and now have a scientific hypothesis. Wandering is a problem with this disease. My husband did the most of that when he was hungry and in the year or two before he began to be physically deteriorate significantly. I had to watch like a hawk when cooking meals that he didn’t escape. He could also do simple ongoing tasks like sweeping stairs or raking leaves. Kind of like flint knapping or scraping hides.
So, my theory is that early tribal man/woman with Alzheimers wakes up hungry in the middle of the night in winter. Goes out, people just think he/she needs to pee, doesn’t come back and freezes to death. One less mouth to feed and more food for survival of his offspring. My husband was Scotts ancestry with a little Cree Indian, both fringe peoples. I have checked some cultures where the people have been settled in urban centers for 500 or more years. Much lower senile demential rates there. If people wandered off they would probably be found and returned to family. More research needed.