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  Post to Topic     Print   Seniors preventing dementia with facebook? An article by Patrick Roden PhD
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cclark said:
on August 19, 2009 08:12 PM ET

“Remember we’re all in this alone”
-Lily Tomlin

It was an early crisp morning on a high desert near the Central Oregon town of Sisters. The smell of juniper filled the air as soft sunlight danced on the lonely stretch of road laid out before me—this is my favorite time to run.

Off in the distance the majestic snow-capped Three Sisters Mountains and Mount Bachelor were my only companions; and the bliss of chosen solitude came over me like a kundalini experience.

Several decades before I reluctantly accompanied my uncle down these same dusty roads; it was his search for solitude in the wilderness that brought us there. He loved it…and as for me, a youngster who suffered mild home-sickness and a longing to be with friends, it made me feel lonely. Now ironically, as an adult, I find myself frequently seeking out that same solitude.

Read article in it's entirety at http://www.theseniorlist.com/forums/91/seniors-preventing-dementia-with-facebook/
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michael1755 said:
on August 22, 2009 12:09 AM ET

I dont know i dont mean to be dismisive in any way but i just feel that Alzheimers and demetia are the root cause of the isolationism and not vice versa ,so of course results would show more people who tend to islate themselves would have a higher incidencneof dementia. There are very few people i can hold a conversation with or even watch a television program where people have to answer ??? that i dont end up saying oh my god and i have Alzheimers disease,its almost as annoying as the article which the auth. must have put much time into and no consideration into its contents it sounded like some one was trying to get a job writing dime store novels