If you are drinking until you pass out you probably won’t live long enough to get dementia.
Sorry, I passed out. What were we talking about?
You would be suprised to know just how many drunks live long enough to get dementia. Underscores just how healthy and long lived they would have been if they didn’t drink heavily. Also many people with alcohol induced encephalopathic dementia are being charitably misdiagnosed as “Alzeimer’s disease”.
Unfortunately you can live long enough to get dementia.
Stage 4 liver failure is often accompanied by hepatic encephalopathy.
We’re currently experiencing that with an adult child.