Henry Shelford, CEO and Co-Founder of ADHD UK provided comment for the article.
“As someone with a diagnosis of ADHD and close relatives with Dementia, I read this research with trepidation. The research is exploratory and only applied to those 51 years plus who didn’t have an ADHD or Dementia diagnosis at the time. It doesn’t cover those with a diagnosis already. We don’t know if their proposed link could be a direct one – as a result of an individual having ADHD – or an indirect one – a consequence of the choices and life-impacts of living with undiagnosed ADHD. So it is hard to draw any real conclusions beyond the key point that we need to learn much more about ADHD and its secondary effects. Right now ADHD in the UK is struggling to get proper recognition, let alone important deep research. This paper highlights that we need to know so much more so we can properly understand and help the 2.6 million people in the UK with ADHD.”
You can read the full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/17/people-diagnosed-with-adhd-as-adults-could-be-at-greater-risk-of-dementia
