Know Someone with Alzheimers? (Please Help Me out)

Do you know someone with Alzheimers?

Do you know if they’ve abstained from regular coffee ?

I’m asking to see if I can get some degree of confirmation from this health report

If true, this is astounding . Two thirds of alzheimers cases could be prevented. At the age of 58, I’m definitely not giving up regular coffee.

There are three people I know of with Alzheimers and I’ve confirmed in each case that they do not drink regular coffee.

My FIL who I met in 79 and who a few years later went to university, secured a degree in gerontology, a fitness freak and never drank a regular coffee the entire time I’ve known him.

I just called up a friend whose father also has Alzheimers, a little more progressed and confirmed that he’s drank Decaf for years.

Then I checked out Ronald Reagan, circa 1987.

so my personal confirmation process is batting 100%

So can you help me out by increasing the sample size of the data with regard to this issue ?

Thanx.

Quasimodem has a blog about Alzheimer’s, here. I don’t know if he has covered that subject, but it couldn’t hurt to ask.

Huh??

I assume I should stop drinking decaff…

I’ve worked with Alzheimer’s sufferers who drank coffee, including one who had moderate dementia (in layman’s terms advanced dementia) when she was only 64. Anyway, perhaps drinking coffee will just cause you to get vascular dementia instead.

My soon-to-be 93 year old grandmother lives with us, and I’m her caregiver/POA. She’s in stage 5 Alzheimer’s.
She drinks at least 2, 12 cup pots of coffee per day, and has done the same since I’ve known her, which has been 46 years, so far. I also drink lots of coffee. Imagine my coffee bill. I’ve had to switch from a good brand, to the vile Folgers, just to afford to keep us in the stuff.
Anyway, she’s never used decaf, ever. Nor do I. Just the regular stuff.

I must add that her sister, and her brother has/had AD, also. Her sister died of it a couple of months ago. Her brother is in stage 4.
Her sister that passed was 8 years younger than her. Her brother is about 10 years younger than her. She has another sister, who is 5 years younger than her, and she’s still sharp as a tack. She also drinks a lot of coffee.

Crap. Missed the edit window the second time.

I wanted to add that my grandma’s late sister, and her brother were serious coffee drinkers, also.
Never any decaf. Just the regular stuff.

My father had Alzheimer’s, and was a life-long coffee drinker. But of course if he hadn’t drunk coffee, he might have become symptomatic years earlier. There’s no way of knowing.

My mother, who suffered from Alzheimers-related dementia, drank 5-8 cups of coffee a day for almost her entire adult life. While this study is interesting, it needs to be reproduced numerous times before I believe it. If it was as simple as drinking coffee a lot of people would love to believe that…

My grandfather lived to 90, mind sharp to the end. He didn’t drink coffee, but he liked to put Mountain Dew in his orange juice.

My 90ish grandmother seems pretty much dementia-free. She does seem miss what I tell her sometimes, but that might be her hearing & my diction; her long-term memory is mainly intact. She likes tea.

FWIW.

My grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease and was a heavy coffee drinker. Couldn’t stand decaf.

My mother has Alzheimer’s, and has been a moderate to heavy regular coffee drinker all her adult life.

I know about forty people with Alzheimer’s. Couldn’t tell you how much coffee they drank in their previous lives. However not many people here (Australia) of that generation drank much coffee. I think the prevalence of Alzheimer’s is similar in both countries though I could be wrong (lot of variables there outside of coffee consumption, of course).

My grandmother had Alzheimers and died after a horrendous 20 years at the age of 92. She never drank coffee but had a real tea addiction. Not sure how that fits with the most recent study, though.

I live in fear of following in her footsteps and drink regular coffee, so I’m definitely hoping the results of this study are confirmed. Not a guarantee I won’t get Alzheimers, of course, but every little helps.

My father’s side has a family history of Alzheimers. My grandfather had it, now my aunt has been diagnosed with early onset, and my father shows early signs. All are major regular coffee addicts. My father used to drink several pots a day.

There is more than one component to getting it. If you are genetically inclined, I don’t know if coffee is going to make a difference. It might for other causes though…I hope they figure this out soon, either way. It is a major concern for me and my family.

My 88 year old grandmother has Alzheimer’s. In her lifetime, she’s had a lot of (regular) coffee, and continues to drink it to this day. Coffee is her favourite beverage.

Her sister, who died about 10 years ago, also had Alzheimer’s Disease, and was also a coffee drinker.

I have worked in Long term care, home health, and a dedicated Alzheimer’s units in a hospital. Needless to say, I have seen a lot of Alzheimer patients. Most all of them were coffee drinkers. Some to the point of obsession with getting that next cup. On the dedicated unit, coffee was the first thing they warned me about. Don’t let the pot get empty!

Maybe that study was funded by the Coffee Bean Cartel.

A lot of examples here of Alzheimer’s patients who drink coffee immoderately.

So, excessive coffee drinking plaques the brain, but moderate consumption is OK?

Or is it just that with the loss of short-term memory, the demented can’t remember that they’ve already had 17 cups today?

Or are they self-medicating with all this coffee, but it just isn’t enough?

Anecdote: My grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and he’s drunk at least two cups of coffee a day for as long as I can remember.

The article linked doesn’t mention whether they broke down coffee drinkers between decaf and non-decaf. Does the actual study?