Fareastdriver,
I've often thought, that if all pensioners not already on line were issued with simple laptops at 65, (and OU programme of basic instructions for them run on BBC Channel 2 in the black hours), then the onset of Alzheimers might to some extent be delayed, and existing cases stabilised. You'd only have to do this for 10-15 years until the computer literate generations caught up.
All muscles atrophy with lack of use, and I'd think that brain cells might well do the same. The consequent savings to the NHS might even pay for it ! (I stand to be shot down on this)....D.
Smudge,
Never fear: "dum spiro, scribo" shall be my motto. Die Ganz Geschicte is unterwegs - aber nur langsam !...D.
Cheers, both, Danny.