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Not to discourage mental exercise, but I've known quite a few people who were intellectually active and still succumbed to Alzheimer's. The research tends to offer a bit more hope through regular physical exercise, but even that just seems to be a guess. I instructed my wife that if I am one day stricken with this condition, she should not wait until the disease is full-blown - she is to put a pillow over my head. That night while in bed watching the evening news, she put a pillow over my head! When I wrestled free and asked what she was doing, she answered, "practicing." We now sleep in separate bedrooms! > > Like most people my age, my memory ain't as sharp as it used to be but > I'll be damned if I'd spend money on "memory games". Instead I develop my > own exercises--who knows if they work--but they are free and relatively > painless. What I do is pick a category like jazz musicians or baseball, > something I am familiar with, and go through the alphabet naming people, > the quota based on the difficulty of the category. > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
