Shooting of 107 year old

lol ... who does that? (Not that I would be surprised, mind you). I think the adults in this man's life should have seen to it that he did not have a gun if his mental faculties were pretty much a goner.

Agree - wholeheartedly. Just didn't like the sound of "age" being the culprit so clarified. My roomie's mother is only in her late 70's and is all upset about having her car keys taken. She's a mess though - and I have full expectations that she'll take off on foot for the store down the road some time and not be able to find her way home. She was close to lethal just getting out of her driveway. Scares me when families or doctors don't intervene in this type of case. In THIS case - it took the doctor to do it because her offspring are too drooling stupid to do it.

Alzheimers is FAR from being something where you can't remember 5 minutes into the past. In fact, it is conceivable that a person could seem normal for a day, within the context of the day. My mother CERTAINLY remembered some current things. She could tell me what I did DECADES ago, and hold a conversation for minutes, but not remember anything about the day before, etc.... HCK, when I moved, I had HER arrange things in california, and there was a drill that was missed. A friend got it for me when I was like 7 or 8, and I kept it for DECADES. It was moved home to home. She forgot all about it. Late in the day, when she called, she would indicate that she didn't know what state(of the union) I was in, let alone the time of day. Many people with alzheimers tend to find it harder to remember current events, etc... as the day progresses.

The brain works almost like a computer. In a computer, there is a cache that remembers CURRENT stuff and remembers for a time. Depending on the type, the time can vary. Same with a person. Apparently, there is a secondary, or so, level that lasts about a day. THIS was illustrated in the plot of "50 first dates". IRONICALLY, many young people have problems here, and some with alzheimers DON'T! A computer has a long term memory. SAME with a person! If a young person remembers information for maybe an hour, and intends to remember it, they likely WILL for a long while. People with alzheimers may not only forget that stuff within a day, but forget other stuff as well. The most current stuff is the FIRST to be forgotten. BTW People can have pretty full blown cases of alzheimers EVEN in their FORTIES!

With older people, memories just become a bit more spotty, but even the youngest kids forget much of what they know.

I HATED the idea that I was a LOW RISK driver, and had to pay more for car insurance because of some STUPID males making it seem like ALL young males were bad drivers! People have made a LOT of really STUPID assumptions about me, and I wouldn't want to have any similar thing codified. Some young people don't EVER deserve to even ride a BIKE! Conversely, some old people shouldn't be denied the ability to drive a car.

Steve