Dementia
D2 writing
I will try to summarize what I read with fast speed today. at first I was curious about dementia, I don’t understand where to start to find out any useful information to broaden my knowledge. here is my summary
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Basically from the journal tittled “Prevalence, risk factors, and racial disparities in probable and possible dementia: the national health and aging trends study” the writer or researcher wanted to conduct research about risk factor from, age, ethnicity, and other condition that could have any impact on the risk of dementia.
the research was devided into three outcomes, probable (which is the probability is bigger), possible (where the possibility is mid) and No dementia.
From what I read I got the understanding which every variable analyzed in this study were associated with an increased risk factor for odds on cognitive impairment which leads to dementia. Variable of the age, categorized in three from the young old, between 65–74, Old in between 74–84 and oldest old on the above of 85 years old, the more older, the data trend told us the more probable from the to risking from dementia. Furthermore, about the racial disparities or ethnicity, in this research the participants were divided by three ethnicity which is white, black and hispanic. the result actually far from what I deduce before. the highly probable for demetia is Hispanic, the black and last one is white. another factor such as, hypertension, diabetes, hearing aid, stroke, history falls also had higher risk for dementia. another variable that may could be something unpredictable is about gender, the female had higher persentage on probable of dementia than male and mental health like depression, anxiety, isolation, and limited education also giving higher odds on cognivitive impairment that leads to dementia.
At last, mitigating for demetia risk to preventable way requires multidisiplinary support.
