How does dementia compare to AIDS and Cancer?

Question

From a cultural point of view, do you know why dementia has been compared to AIDS and cancer?

Listen, Pk_dag, the windbag, I don't mind arrogance but only when it comes from someone who can afford it. Your comment proves that you are clueless as to the meaning of my question (next time, pay attention to the category as well. that's the think you need to select prior posting just in case you haven't noticed. it is there for a reason.. If I were you, I would try to cool off for a while.. that's too much farting around you've been doing for absolutely zero... and it is beginning to stink up the place.

hint: dementia, AIDS and cancer all belong to the recent history of diseases. the three of them have been directly linked to our changing lifestyles.

Answer 1

Dementia happens to most people and is just considered to be an old persons disease or condition.

Cancer just happens and is not generally blamed on anything except the environment.

AIDS is a cultural taboo...associated with a lifestyle considered deviant by many.

Get Cancer or dementia, you get empathy.

Get AIDS and you are the disease itself.

I wouldn't know personally, I don't have any of the above but these are my observations.

Answer 2

Like 'nakedness' can be compared to Pneumonia and a boring novel perhaps.
Each of these dreadful conditions (Dementia, AIDS and cancer - not nakedness, pneumonia and boring novel) are complex diseases with a complex aetiology, complex presentation having complex complications and require a complex management strategy. These conditions may all happen to the same person and may be one of the causes for each other. But asking for a cultural comparison between these is like asking how brinjal jam would taste with ladyfinger soup.

Answer 3

long term cancer eventually gets to the brain and causes dementia. AIDS related cancer has the same effect. In the elderly it happens as the blood vessels become constricted causing the slow destruction of brain cells.

Answer 4

In my opinion it's worse than Aids and Cancer because the person will probably live a long time and have no clue on what is going on.

Answer 5

they're the two devastating illnesses. the in demand remedies for the two illnesses are very high priced and intensely puzzling on the physique. the two ailment can kill you youthful.. appears like a reasonable assessment to me. Oh and additionally, based on the kind of maximum cancers, and based on the way AIDS strengthen into shrunk, that's by using sexual options or existence-form options. to illustrate, AIDS could be led to via risky intercourse, even though it may additionally be led to via an infection of blood products, or a results of being born to an AIDS mom. maximum cancers could be led to via risky intercourse (HPV finally ends up in cervical maximum cancers) or smoking (the two unfavourable existence-form options), even though it may additionally be led to via environmental aspects, or because of the fact the outcomes of being born with a genetic code that makes you extra probably to get it. the only difference is that different than for on the continent of Africa, so lots extra people in the international get maximum cancers than AIDS. So ok, i don't think of something is the 'new' something. yet i'm able to verify how people could desire to draw this assessment. in the adventure that your loved ones were killed via AIDS rather of maximum cancers, you would be feeling in any different case i think of.