Dementia claims the lives of smarter people sooner, scientists have discovered.”
Actually what this article is saying is that people with advanced degrees are diagnosed LATER IN THE DISEASE PROCESS. Therefore they die sooner AFTER DIANOSIS.
The article is totally misleading garbage.
Agree. Their intelligence gives them more work-arounds, or even more strategies to deny the illness or fool their loved ones for far longer.
I've just had a friend go through the process and die of it. He was not only very, very smart, but very, very kind and giving, doing mission work up til the very moment he couldn't, having become a cleric after his impactful career in higher math. It's particularly tragic when the sufferer is smart enough to know what is happening and how many opportunities he or she is losing. My friend was still praying for people in his last week on earth. So glad he is fully restored in the arms of his Maker now.