Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
Far more likely, I suspect, is simply the increasing life expectancy. People who would previously have died at a younger age are living longer, and a certain proportion of them are developing dementia in their old age.
|
Good point. It'd be interesting to see (for example) cancer deaths correlated to life expectancy. If you die in childhood from being run over by a coal cart, you never develop things like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, carcinoma, etc.