Posted on 06/20/2022 1:04:09 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
To help protect older adults from financial exploitation, researchers are working to understand who is most at risk. New findings suggest that willingness to give away money could be linked to the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease.
Sixty-seven older adults who did not have dementia or cognitive impairment completed a laboratory task where they decided whether to give money to an anonymous person or keep it for themselves. They also completed a series of cognitive tests, such as word and story recall. Those who gave away more money performed worse on the cognitive assessments known to be sensitive to Alzheimer's disease.
In the lab, each participant was told they had been paired with an anonymous person who was completing the study online. They were then given $10 and instructed to allocate it however they wished, in $1 increments, between themselves and the anonymous person.
The older adults in the study also completed a series of neuropsychological tests, including several that are commonly used to help diagnose Alzheimer's disease in its early stages. The tests included story and word recall tasks where participants are asked to remember information after a short delay; a category fluency test that involves listing words on a specific topic; and several other cognitive assessments.
Participants who gave more away scored significantly lower on the neuropsychological tests known to be sensitive to early Alzheimer's disease. There were no significant performance differences on other neuropsychological tests.
Clarifying these details can help researchers distinguish between what represents healthy giving behavior versus something that could signify underlying problems.
"The last thing we would want is for people to think that financial altruism among older adults is a bad thing," Han said. "It can certainly be a deliberate and positive use of a person's money."
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Well, that explains Biden........................
Can we all say, 40 billion..
It becomes easier to go along with the scam than try to analyze it.
Exactly ..
his puppetmasters are the anonymous beggar elites
I say, bull f...ing sh*t on this one.....
I say just the opposite...
So, all these people who have their names on the various foundations for the arts, and NPR etc are early Alzheimers?
Americans are generous people, and as you get older, esp if you’re well off, you ten to give some back.
Bull shyte post from people who are probably guilty because they never tithe.
I agree. The lord loves a cheerful giver. As you get older your bills become more or less fixed. I dont need a new car, a boat, new shoes every month, designer hats, sports jerseys, rap concert tickets, bar bills every weekend. Im not sick, If I find someone who deserves help, Ill help them.
Americans are generous people, and as you get older, esp if you’re well off, you ten to give some back.
BINGO!
There are a lot of videos on YouTube that show hackers (good ones) that fight scammers who prey almost entirely on elderly Americans, Canadians etc. They do this because they know there odds are higher.
Not sure if that refutes your opinion entirely, maybe it’s because they are more giving but I think that’s not what makes them more gullible.
Dozens if not hundreds of videos like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibY6Sdnlj4c
My experience has been that people tend to be cheerful givers early on in life or they don’t.
If the research looks at people individually, and their, tithing and other charitable giving early on and then compare it with their later years, then maybe they may have something there.
I have a neighbor, and she’s in her 80s. She still sharp, but she tends to get taken in by these hackers to their phone or computer. You know what I’m talking about ie the hacker says you owe money to the IRS, OR YOUR COMPUTER OR PHONE IS FROZEN, you have to call this number to unlock it....etc.
She’s lonely, and she gets taken in.
She doesn’t have Alzheimer’s. Her husband died a few years ago, her kids don’t come around as much, and she’s lonely.
Alzheimer’s? I want to tell the people who wrote this article to go do something to a rope....
It could be true, but I find other personality changes more obvious among my older friends. Nonstop talking, more of a propensity to anger, disregard for the needs of others (even among those who had been the opposite before), suspicion of the motives of others, a worried disposition toward life instead of joie de vivre . . .
These are more noticeable if you know someone well. Putting dirty clothes in the freezer, getting lost when out walking, and stuff like that is quirky but there are other signs that seem more gradual and subtle and antisocial.
But looking back, we now see the first signs showing years before. She had always been a spendthrift, one of those Great Depression kids that would hold off and really debate making any sizable purchase. Maybe handing the grandkids a $20 bill on birthdays but nothing huge. When suddenly she started making large purchases like new furniture and things for herself. At first we were happy that she was finally loosening up and spending on herself in her golden years. But then she started handing out really large amounts, $10,000 to a nephew for a new car. $1,000 to the grandkids on Christmas. She would even try to hand me money when I went over and I'm a successful Accountant that made far more than she did, so I, of course, refused. It got to the point that we finally had to set her down and politely ask her to stop it, as the younger grandkids were just starting to use her as an ATM. But by the time she passed away she had managed to run what was once well over $100,000 in savings down to less than $15,000.
Like $44,000 to re-plumb a 1500 sqft house?
Vitamin K2 Holds Promise for Alzheimer’s Prevention and Treatment
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8308377/
I’ve seen that. THe hackers are mostly in India...
The trait that freaks me out is when someone who used to be highly intelligent and logical start contradicting themselves less than a minute after they make statements—have a relative like that now...
Like $44,000 to re-plumb a 1500 sqft house?
Ouch!
Or maybe almost selling a house 2 miles from Disneyland to a random stranger who knocked on her door and offered about half the fair market value?
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