Europe Is Facing a Dementia Problem: Rates of dementia per 1000 inhabitants in select European countries

22 comments
  1. Dementia is mostly an old mans disease.
    The more you grow old the more likely you are to get dementia especially above 80, italy and spain have high life expectancy, loads of people above 80. I would expect the countries with higher life expectencies to have higher dementia rates.

  2. What would be interesting is to see the age of the dementia sufferers to see if it’s only older people.

    There is a possibility that early onset dementia is more prevalent nowadays for unknown reason but it’s difficult to say if it’s because something causes dementia to start earlier or because it’s diagnosed more accurately and thus sooner.

    If you see an increase of young onset dementia in a lot of countries though, it is most likely because something causes dementia to set up sooner

  3. As expected with the huge microplastics pollution clogging everything, especially the brain and nobody doing anything about it!

    Probably air pollution has an influnce too.

  4. I don’t think it’s an effect of the population getting older(as the comments are suggesting), Portugal is one of the countries with the most aging population and it’s not even on that graph.

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