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To: THE ANT who wrote (142785)7/30/2018 2:30:36 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 218070
 
Level of education and dementia.

ANT, coming from an relative young country, my first contact with a older country was Germany back in the 80s.

I was surprised to see that the German elderly were mentally sharper than the Brazilian ones.

I have not discussed this with any one, but stuck in my head ever since.

The Brazilian elder of the 60s to 80s that i had been in contact were in its vast majority low educated.

Then, in my adolescence we used to hear the term: "Someone is becoming gaga". As to become affected by dementia.It was like a synonym for old age.

Then you told us here about the brain capacity shrinks if you don't use it. The person in a developing country being low educated, has not use much of his brain capacity unless for his immediate requirements.

An educated person, in a developing country, may be at an advantage vis a vis an uneducated one as it has to relate with other similarly educated or higher educayed number of person.

Another fact is that a lowly educated person stops working at an earlier age than an educated one. If you don't have education you have lower skills that can get rusty with age. Or you do physical work that your body weakens and you can no longer perform.

That means the lower educated person stops using his brain earlier thus increasing the chances of dementia
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