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Firearms and Dementia | Annals of Internal Medicine | American College of Physicians
“The estimated number of older persons in the United States with Alzheimer disease is projected to increase from 4.7 million in 2010 to 13.8 million by 2050. An estimated 33% of all adults aged 65 years or older own a gun; another 12% live in a household with someone who does (1). A 1999 study estimated that 60% of persons with dementia (PWDs) live in a household with a firearm (2). If approximately 40% to 60% of households with PWDs also have a firearm, 7.8 to 11.8 million PWDs may live in a home with a firearm by 2050.”
I review submitted papers for a few medical journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine. The authors of the above ‘Ideas and Opinions’ article tried to foist a totally crap biased survey into publication to provide support for their “ideas and opinions” that more needs to be done about homes that have elderly and guns. The survey didn’t even support their conclusions, as they found most families and caregivers sort that out without police seizing firearms. But they want laws and seizures - if you want Grandpa to live out his days at home rather than in a county home or institution, you have to give his guns to the police. If he lives with you, your guns gotta go too.
While that manuscript got shut down it will go to a lesser journal and end up getting published and referenced by Everytown as Medical Research supporting the need to get guns out of homes with those susceptible to dementia.
Hence, the rise of “Yellow Flag” laws that allow anyone to ask removal of guns from homes with old white males. Early warning - it’s coming.
“The estimated number of older persons in the United States with Alzheimer disease is projected to increase from 4.7 million in 2010 to 13.8 million by 2050. An estimated 33% of all adults aged 65 years or older own a gun; another 12% live in a household with someone who does (1). A 1999 study estimated that 60% of persons with dementia (PWDs) live in a household with a firearm (2). If approximately 40% to 60% of households with PWDs also have a firearm, 7.8 to 11.8 million PWDs may live in a home with a firearm by 2050.”
I review submitted papers for a few medical journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine. The authors of the above ‘Ideas and Opinions’ article tried to foist a totally crap biased survey into publication to provide support for their “ideas and opinions” that more needs to be done about homes that have elderly and guns. The survey didn’t even support their conclusions, as they found most families and caregivers sort that out without police seizing firearms. But they want laws and seizures - if you want Grandpa to live out his days at home rather than in a county home or institution, you have to give his guns to the police. If he lives with you, your guns gotta go too.
While that manuscript got shut down it will go to a lesser journal and end up getting published and referenced by Everytown as Medical Research supporting the need to get guns out of homes with those susceptible to dementia.
Hence, the rise of “Yellow Flag” laws that allow anyone to ask removal of guns from homes with old white males. Early warning - it’s coming.