BUMP! Pretty simple isn’t it.
Exactly. They die of infectious diseases first.
Besides people don’t really die of dementia, they die fr CHF or COPD or other organ failure.
Not the best logic in this article.
I don’t think we want to die of the things that people die of in poor countries!
The comparison is between countries is between those people who do reach the relevant age group. Anywho, there is surprisingly little difference in life expectancy between countries anymore. Especially if you factor out higher infant mortality in poorer countries, which has a huge impact on life expectancy stats.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
USA is 50th (!) in the world.
I would add that in those countries the services/organizations used to track these things probably either do not exist or they are not high on the list of priorities due to other, more pressing matters (i.e., civil war/ unrest, coups, famine, etc.).
RE: Because they don’t live long enough to get into the age range.Malnutrition...malaria...cholera....or war usually gets them long before.
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I don’t think the author ( a doctor ) excluded these diseases in his observation. He said this at the beginning of his article:
When I was a young doctor working in poor countries, I made a casual observation that old people in them did not seem to suffer very often from dementia.
That could mean, that taking these diseases into consideration, he still observes that they seldom get dementia.