Should you have a dementia advanced directive - Jan 2018

One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan New York Times

  • "lifetime risk at age 70 was 30.8 percent for men and 37.4 percent for women."

https://www.dementia-directive.org/

Basically asks the following 3 questions for mild, moderate and severe stages of dementia

  1. To live for as long as I could. I would want full efforts to prolong my life, including efforts to restart my heart if it stops beating.
  2. To only receive care in the place where I am living. I would not want to go to the hospital even if I were very ill.
  3. To receive comfort-oriented care only, focused on relieving my suffering such as pain, anxiety, or breathlessness

 Download the Advanced Directive PDF from VitaminDWiki

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Consider taking Vitamin D to PREVENT Dementia

Consider taking Omega-3 to PREVENT Dementia

Consider computer software to PREVENT Dementia

Consider Lecithin to improve Cognition and perhaps to PREVENT Dementia


Cognitive category starts with the following
Very brief summary of Cognitive decline
Treatment : Vitamin D intervention slows or stops progression
Prevention : Many observational studies - perhaps Vitamin D prevents
Omega-3 both prevents and treats cognition
Wonder the benefits if both Vitamin D AND Omega-3 were to be used
Dementia page - 50 items

373 items in Cognition category

see also Overview Alzheimer's-Cognition and Vitamin D
Overview Parkinson's and Vitamin D

Studies in both categories of Cognition and:
Cardiovascular (7 studies), Genetics (9 studies), Vitamin D Receptor (16 studies), Omega-3 (49 studies), Intervention (19 studies), Meta-analyses (22 studies), Depression (23 studies), Parkinson's (22 studies)
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Poor cognition 26 percent more likely if low Vitamin D (29 studies) – meta-analysis July 2017
Every schizophrenia measure was improved when vitamin D levels were normalized – June 2021
Cognitive Impairment and Dementia often associated with low Vitamin D – April 2020
IQ levels around the world are falling (perhaps lower Vitamin D, Iodine, or Omega-3)
Search VitaminDWiki for "WHITE MATTER" 325 items as of March 2023

Types of evidence that Vitamin D helps brain problems - 2014
https://vitamindwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page_id=8392

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