Better-Educated Seniors Develop More Severe Dementia

**Hootad Binky** · 25-10-2007, 02:37 AM

The better-educated you are, the worse your dementia will eventually be (when and if it comes)!

Any TD candidates?

More School = Steeper Slide To Dementia?

Study Links Education Level To Rate Of Memory Decline Before Dementia

Oct. 23, 2007

Among elders with dementia, those with higher levels of education had a delayed, but steeper, decline in memory in the years leading up to their dementia diagnosis. (AP)

(WebMD) New research links a person's years of formal education to his or her path toward dementia.

The study's key finding: Among elders with dementia, those with higher levels of education had a delayed, but steeper, decline in memory in the years leading up to their dementia diagnosis.

"Our study showed that a person with 16 years of formal education would experience a rate of memory decline that is 50 percent faster than someone with just four years [of] education," Charles B. Hall, Ph.D., says in a news release.

"This rapid decline may be explained by how people with more education have a greater cognitive reserve, or the brain's ability to maintain function in spite of damage," says Hall.

Hall works in New York as an associate professor of epidemiology and population health at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dementia and Education

Hall's team reviewed data on 117 elders living in New York's Bronx neighborhood who developed dementia during a 27-year study.

Of the group's 21 high school graduates, seven had a college degree and some postgraduate education.

Participants got yearly checkups and took memory tests in which they had to memorize and immediately recall a list of 12 unrelated words.

The memory tests show that accelerated memory loss began 5.5 years before dementia diagnosis in typical participants, who had eight years of schooling.

Accelerated memory loss started later -- about four years before dementia diagnosis -- in elders with 16 years of education.

But when memory loss started, it happened faster in highly educated elders.

The study, published in Neurology, doesn't mean that education causes dementia.

A mix of genetic and environmental factors can affect dementia risk. Observational studies such as this one don't prove cause and effect.

educated dementia - Google News

**dirtydog** · 25-10-2007, 02:48 AM

We are talking about academics though and not your average farang teacher in Thailand, although I feel sure that being a qualified forklift driver is quite important to being a teacher in Thailand.

**Hootad Binky** · 25-10-2007, 03:01 AM

This article is not specifically about "farang teachers in Thailand." Indeed, there are more topics than "farang teachers in Thailand."

It's about people with 16 years or more of formal education, in other words people with university degrees, hardly the definition of an "academic" and hardly confined to "farang teachers in Thailand."

**dirtydog** · 25-10-2007, 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

It's about people with 16 years or more of formal education, in other words people with university degrees, hardly the definition of an "academic"

16 years of education I would put them down as academic, well considering the scum teaching in Thailand that done a 6 week course.

**Spin** · 25-10-2007, 03:15 AM

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

Any TD candidates?

How old is Diaw?

**Texpat** · 25-10-2007, 03:34 AM

The sin is not being smart/educated.
The sin is gloating. Nobody can stomach that.

Read the story again ...

memory loss began 5.5 years before dementia in participants, who had eight years of schooling.

memory loss started later -- about four years -- in elders with 16 years of education.

So the oldies get a four year head start but it goes downhill faster.

**Hootad Binky** · 25-10-2007, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

It's about people with 16 years or more of formal education, in other words people with university degrees, hardly the definition of an "academic"

16 years of education I would put them down as academic, well considering the scum teaching in Thailand that done a 6 week course.

Top, accredited TEFL courses, such as the CELTA from Cambridge University, are 6-week courses that do not require a university degree.

**dirtydog** · 25-10-2007, 05:05 AM

Artexing courses are a 2 week course that dont require any qualifications, but they don't make you a builder.

**Hootad Binky** · 25-10-2007, 05:33 AM

So a 6 week course cannot make a teacher? Someone inform Cambridge University!

**sabang** · 25-10-2007, 07:29 AM

Is it possible to specialise in Sex education

**Frankenstein** · 25-10-2007, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

So a 6 week course cannot make a teacher? Someone inform Cambridge University!

What's up with you lately Hootad? You seem unusually defensive.

**Lily** · 25-10-2007, 09:31 AM

Isn't the Celta in Bangkok a four week course?

**Hootad Binky** · 25-10-2007, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Originally Posted by Hootad Binky

So a 6 week course cannot make a teacher? Someone inform Cambridge University!

What's up with you lately Hootad? You seem unusually defensive.

The thread is about the effect of education on dementia, not what should constitute the proper qualifications of TEFL teachers in Thailand.

I'm a TEFL teacher-trainer by profession, a teacher for 12 years, 5 of which as a "TEFLer" in Thailand.

So I get a little annoyed when the thread is highjacked with complete impunity by posters like DD who claim that all TEFL teachers in Thailand are pedophile "scum." Without any sort of reasonable evidence or link. Many of the teachers I worked with in Thailand were excellent educators so I do not see my colleagues or myself as "scum."

There's thread after thread of this spew from people who are not teachers, know nothing about teaching in Thailand, and clearly know nothing, as shown above, about teacher-training, either.

**Hootad Binky** · 25-10-2007, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Lily

Isn't the Celta in Bangkok a four week course?

That's in its fastest version.

**Frankenstein** · 25-10-2007, 11:14 AM

Apart from building advice and show us your holiday threads, Teakdoor specializes in groundless paedophile accusations, so don't take it so seriously.

**Lily** · 25-10-2007, 11:21 AM

^Actually, I think some of dds best friends are tefl scum.

**zipcode** · 25-10-2007, 01:45 PM

Perhaps the severity of the dementia is just more noticeable in better educated people. Reduction in performance by a pro athlete is more noticeable and measurable than a reduction in my ability to run, for example.

My dad, who is 75, is certainly the most well-rounded and well-read person I know; and his mental deterioration seems shocking at times only because I am used to him being sharp. On the other hand, it was more difficult to determine how much or how rapidly my grandmother was deteriorating since she wasnt that well-educated nor interested in anything other than the mundane.

Seems to be another validation of "Higher the height, bigger the fall."

Sorry to be on-topic!

**Lily** · 25-10-2007, 02:55 PM

A good point. Blackgang could have dementia for decades before anyone noticed that he wasnt just normally stupid.

**terry57** · 25-10-2007, 03:00 PM

Says she who was born with 3 heads, half a brain to go around and thats being very foking generous.

**terry57** · 25-10-2007, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Lily

^Actually, I think some of dds best friends are tefl scum.

I think Lily was hit by a car when she was born and has been a retard ever since.

The silly cow wrote on my CV that i was dirty bastard because i said " pussy smells like fish and its lucky im a sea food lover "

and she was serious.

I mean this is a male dominated forum with all sorts of lewd and wonderful stuff for fellas and she comes along and accuses me of that.

Now shes having a crack at DD because of his comments.

I have one thing to say to you lily :

That being, Fok Off will ya as your a total foking nutter.

cheers.

And stop writing shit on my CV you hard core cow.

**AntRobertson** · 25-10-2007, 03:17 PM

Terry,

Stop stalking the female members of the forum around the place being a grubby little ass will you. There's a good monkey.

**Lily** · 25-10-2007, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by terry57

The silly cow wrote on my CV

On your Curriculm Vitae?

And I have half a brain?

**terry57** · 25-10-2007, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Terry,

Stop stalking the female members of the forum around the place being a grubby little ass will you. There's a good monkey.

She asked for it mate, she knows why and i make no excuses.

Fok her the old cow.

As far as stalking female members i suggest you get your facts right as theres only 2 that i would love to see hit by a truck.

The rest are absolutely fine.

So there you go ant, and are we happy now or still sulking.

**terry57** · 25-10-2007, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Lily

Originally Posted by terry57

The silly cow wrote on my CV

On your Curriculm Vitae?

And I have half a brain?

fok me,

She even knows she has half a friggin brain.

**AntRobertson** · 25-10-2007, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by terry57

She asked for it mate, she knows why and i make no excuses.

I don't care.

Originally Posted by terry57

As far as stalking female members i suggest you get your facts right as theres only 2 that i would love to see hit by a truck. The rest are absolutely fine.

The rest? What, you mean like yaya?

Originally Posted by terry57

So there you go ant, and are we happy now or still sulking

Not sulking at all, you're just acting like a fucking pillock. No banana for you, silly little monkey.

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