Following on from the report by the Commission on Assisted Dying, which in actuality is far less a Commission than Ian Paisley is a Doctor, we now hear from "the University of London and the BMJ" that "Brain function can start declining "as early as age 45". Odd then that the researchers - Kivimaki, Glymour, Elbaz, Berr, Ebmeier, Ferrie and Dugravot - can be contacted about their findings via the research director, Archana Singh-Manoux, at Inserm in France. Maybe they were all artificial implants.
Every day I hear in the media people in their late 50s and early 60s emphasizing the fact that they are getting old. It happens on this very forum. Very differently, all of the neighbours in my local community aged between 70 and 95 say that they feel young. It just might be that all the emphasis on youth culture from the 1960s onwards has encouraged in a sort of overly negative contrast feelings of being old at a younger age. If so, this is now being accentuated by further policies of social engineering.
The cohort for this study was selected in 1985-1988, the first four years that I was in the civil service. They say that letters of invitation were written to civil servants in 20 Government Departments. Funny then that this is the first I have ever heard of it. Cognitive testing commenced in 1997-1999, the first three years of Labour, and couldn't you just have predicted it. It set out to see whether mental impairment commenced at age 45, hence ruling out any question of decline from, say, 35 or 25 or 15.
The result could only have been a disadvantage to those between 45 and 65. This is wholly in line with shifts in modern management. Back in 1985, it was generally the case that you would have to have been absolutely brilliant to be young and in senior management. For the vast majority, you would get there bit by bit as you waited your turn. So most 20-somethings would work to 50-somethings. Not any longer. Now it is frequently the other way round. Personally that is not something I could accept. Those who have kids might well be used to being ordered around by them. Had I been a parent, that wouldn't have been the case.
Now, as pensions can't be provided as before, cuts are being made "coincidentally" to those in their late 40s as they are "too expensive", and GPs may be permitted to be accessories to killing, we have this study. What is obvious is that the decisions on reducing pensions - and lifespans - were being taken early in the period of monetarism. It was all mapped out. The fact that this country was more adequately managed for decades by people in their 50s, 60s and 70s, who had the benefit of experience and a broader context of morality, is being eradicated. I really do feel that I would rather be living in the old Soviet Union.
Every day I hear in the media people in their late 50s and early 60s emphasizing the fact that they are getting old. It happens on this very forum. Very differently, all of the neighbours in my local community aged between 70 and 95 say that they feel young. It just might be that all the emphasis on youth culture from the 1960s onwards has encouraged in a sort of overly negative contrast feelings of being old at a younger age. If so, this is now being accentuated by further policies of social engineering.
The cohort for this study was selected in 1985-1988, the first four years that I was in the civil service. They say that letters of invitation were written to civil servants in 20 Government Departments. Funny then that this is the first I have ever heard of it. Cognitive testing commenced in 1997-1999, the first three years of Labour, and couldn't you just have predicted it. It set out to see whether mental impairment commenced at age 45, hence ruling out any question of decline from, say, 35 or 25 or 15.
The result could only have been a disadvantage to those between 45 and 65. This is wholly in line with shifts in modern management. Back in 1985, it was generally the case that you would have to have been absolutely brilliant to be young and in senior management. For the vast majority, you would get there bit by bit as you waited your turn. So most 20-somethings would work to 50-somethings. Not any longer. Now it is frequently the other way round. Personally that is not something I could accept. Those who have kids might well be used to being ordered around by them. Had I been a parent, that wouldn't have been the case.
Now, as pensions can't be provided as before, cuts are being made "coincidentally" to those in their late 40s as they are "too expensive", and GPs may be permitted to be accessories to killing, we have this study. What is obvious is that the decisions on reducing pensions - and lifespans - were being taken early in the period of monetarism. It was all mapped out. The fact that this country was more adequately managed for decades by people in their 50s, 60s and 70s, who had the benefit of experience and a broader context of morality, is being eradicated. I really do feel that I would rather be living in the old Soviet Union.
? - which would bear them out, especialy as my Mum, who had always been forgetful in my mind, succumbed to Alzheimers in her mid-seventies.
both a fantastic thread subject, and posts lateral thinking1!
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