Senioren, die eine Gehirnerschütterung erhalten, entwickeln mit zunehmendem Alter eher Demenz oder ins Wanken. Untersuchungen ergaben
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/10/07/5461759844130/
Senioren, die eine Gehirnerschütterung erhalten, entwickeln mit zunehmendem Alter eher Demenz oder ins Wanken. Untersuchungen ergaben
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/10/07/5461759844130/
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Seniors who get a concussion are more likely to develop dementia or falter as they age, a new study says.
Older folks who suffered a traumatic brain injury had a higher risk of dementia, requiring home care services or admission to a long-term care facility, researchers reported Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
„One of the most common reasons for TBI in older adulthood is sustaining a fall, which is often preventable,“ wrote the research team led by Dr. Jenny Yu Qing Huang, a geriatrician and doctoral student at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.
„By targeting fall-related TBIs, we can potentially reduce TBI-associated dementia in this population,“ researchers wrote.
TBIs occur when a person either whacks their head or is violently jerked by whiplash, causing the brain to hit the inside of the skull and sustain damage, researchers said in background notes.
More than 50% of TBIs in older adults result from falls, researchers said.
For the new study, researchers analyzed data on more than 260,000 people 65 and older living in Ontario, Canada, comparing the health outcomes of those who’d sustained a TBI against those who hadn’t. The data ran between April 2004 and March 2020.
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/197/33/E1067
I’ve noticed, and science has too, that before someone is even diagnosed with dementia, they experience a reduction in motor control. In other words, they become more likely to fall down and hurt themselves, which alone would explain a statistical correlation with concussion:
[Loss of motor function in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease: Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics: Vol 11, No 5](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1586/ern.11.57)
Ten years ago I took a nasty fall down my cellar stairs and smacked the back of my head on the concrete wall at the bottom.
I didn’t lose consciousness, but I did see stars and everything went white for a hot second.
My greatest fear is a long term consequence being dementia.