82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by ataturk on Monday May 21, 2018 @03:22PM (#17121018)

Eh, you can have all the attitude you want, but I'm watching my mother wither away with dementia (she's 81). There's nothing attitude-wise that is involved there.

It's just luck whether you can still do coding at 40,50,60,70+. You WILL reach an age where you will not be mentally capable of doing all the things you want to do whether that is coding or driving a car. Maybe science and modern medicine can save us, but it's too late for my poor mother.

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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by beenBoutIT on Monday May 21, 2018 @08:04PM (#17122859)

Out of curiosity, did she retire before the dementia or after? It's by no means scientific, but among all of the old people I know, the strongest predictor of dementia would be retiring. I haven't been able to find any studies on the relationship between stopping working and the onset of dementia, although it seems like working or keeping busy might somehow help stave it off.

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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by gowld on Monday May 21, 2018 @08:58PM (#17123055)

Could pre-dementia cause people to be ineffective / uncomfortable at work, causing them to retire?

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Re:82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding by beenBoutIT on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:26AM (#17150842)

That's entirely possible. Maybe the old people who keep working keep working because they're not gradually becoming demented.

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