Question:
Why the progressive memory loss in old age?
venkatram r
2007-12-19 02:08:00 UTC
After lying down in the bed at night,suddenly they feel they have not switched off the Cooking Gas Cylinder,though they have done it & checked twise Why this is happening? Not remembering the things that they left safely to pick up later from the place.
Eleven answers:
red
2007-12-19 02:27:54 UTC
If we exclude the illness - supposing the people are not sick of any sickness that may cause memory loss - as people get older, the number of neurons in the brain decreases. They just die, and brain cells are not regenerated like skin cells for example. Once they die they're gone for good. Besides aging, there are several factors that may accelerate the process: drinking alcohol, smoking, stress, etc...



The only solution is memory-enhancing drugs, vitamins and/or steroids. Or maybe they just have to get used to the situation. Cheers!
subbu
2007-12-19 02:14:06 UTC
After certain age say after 50 years people's brain stops growing and the memory cells starts deteorating that is another cause for the people to forget things and also their memory stops responding instantly.
anonymous
2007-12-19 03:34:02 UTC
See Alzheimer's, and memory improvement, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris in sections 29, and 41. A nutritionally balanced diet, with Omega 3 fish oil supplements may help.
Crazy Lady
2007-12-19 02:12:26 UTC
I think you are just worrying alot rather than forgetting this information. Try to get help or advice on sleeping. No Tv 2 hours before you go bed, no hot drinks, reading something you enjoy etc.
Lozza
2007-12-19 02:12:23 UTC
It's probably linked to the person's mental health.



Many old people who do that suffer from things like Alzhiemer's and similar things.



Alzhiemer's is where they start forgetting the most obvious and most simpliest of things.



I only know this because me and my mum both work with and help old people.
threat
2016-10-09 02:06:31 UTC
interest and purpose. pay interest to what you're getting to grasp, and are available to a determination to keep in mind it. We study and preserve guidance maximum suitable as quickly as we've a reliable motivation for committing the textile to reminiscence. Relate to what you know. How does the recent guidance relate to concepts with which you're elementary? come to a determination no count number if to tension reminiscence contraptions, visualization, or reciting. storage seems to extend if we pronounce the names of the products out loud—fairly in the event that they're grouped rhythmically. Grouping products into threes or fours additionally seems to assist keep in mind. grow to be the instructor. draw close the user-friendly theory and clarify it to somebody else on your guy or woman phrases. manage. Make notes, and keep in mind that 7 products is the optimal your short-term reminiscence can carry at one time. categories with 7 or fewer products will artwork maximum suitable. Visualize. Your innovations thinks in the two phrases and photos, so supply it the two: diagrams and charts, besides as photos of what you may desire to nicely known, inclusive of a log cabin with Lincoln's start date above the door. confer with your self. Reciting as you examine and reviewing notes out loud will strengthen interest and motivation, and creates a larger neural hint of reminiscence in the time of using extra senses. ASAP evaluate. in case you pass over what you have found out for merely 5 minutes at present once you have found out it, your retention would be a techniques larger than in case you pass this effective step.
Donald C
2007-12-19 02:18:27 UTC
My doctor told me that it is first sign of dementia or alzheimers. To combat, do a lot of crossword puzzles and/or brain games to keep the electrons moving in the brain.

Then again, you could just be forgetful. Good luck.
anonymous
2007-12-21 10:39:16 UTC
becoz of degeneration/dying of the nerve cells/tissues
anonymous
2007-12-19 02:11:50 UTC
bcz of degeneration of brain cells, it is a process were in the brain cells starts dying.
ramarao p
2007-12-19 02:11:10 UTC
It happens inthe old age...dont worry
vimal
2007-12-19 02:25:45 UTC
cell growth is retarded in the old age.



so memory loss.


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