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Older people in ancient Greece and Rome may not have experienced severe memory problems like many who are aging today.
, the age of 35 was hardly considered 'old' for the time. The median age of death in ancient Greece was,, closer to 70 years, which means that half of society was living even longer than that. Hippocrates himself, the famous Greek physician and so-called father of medicine, is thought to have died in his 80s or 90s.Memory loss is a highly common feature of aging in the modern world, but it wasn't always so.
In the time of Aristotle and Hippocrates, they say, only a few texts mention symptoms that could indicate early- or mid-stage Alzheimer's disease, with no mention of major losses in memory, speech, or reasoning. In the 2nd century the personal physician to the Roman emperor, a Greek physician named Galen, wrote about survivors of two plagues who apparently could not recognize themselves or their friends.Such factors could have put the populace at greater risk of Alzheimer's disease, triggering unusual symptoms of old age that were rarely seen in times gone by, suggest Finch and Burstein.
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