Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been in the boxing ring for 30 years, and I've taken a lot of punches," a subdued Ali said at a news conference. "So there is a great possibility something could be wrong." But the doctors denied that Ali was suffering from dementia pugilistica, a medical term for the often caricatured condition of the simple-minded bruiser who has taken one punch too many. "He is not punch-drunk," said Dr. Stanley Fahn, the neurologist in charge of his case. Nor, doctors insisted, is Ali suffering from Parkinson's disease, a disorder that occurs when the brain...
...admit those who cannot be treated profitably. Part of the problem, notes Karen Davis, a health economist at Johns Hopkins, is that there is no allowance for the complexity of a case: "For example, you may have two patients with a broken hip, but one could have senile dementia and need a high level of nursing care." Under the new Medicare laws, hospitals would be reimbursed the same amount for both patients. Categorizing each patient into a single DRG may also present problems. Patients over 75, points out Gerontologist Laurence Rubenstein of U.C.L.A., "have an average of eight...
...victories and to have suffered from their own triumphant revolution. Aging revolutionaries who have recaptured power, they seem to want, most of them, to give China back to the ideals of the original revolution. They are struggling to avoid such a transfer of power as Mao, in his senile dementia, tried to mastermind from the palace court. They meet, usually, in the old Zhongnanhai imperial grounds, sometimes in the Great Hall of the People, sometimes in places unspecified...
...trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend themselves from their attackers. For those who commit private violence, who abuse children, beat wives and rape, the usual reasons behind public violence?greed, dementia, vengeance, feral antisocial anger?do not generally apply. How to explain acts of brutality so personal and thus so specially disturbing...
...approximated by a careful process of elimination. Through CAT scanning and other tests, the physician gradually determines that the patient has not suffered a series of small strokes, does not have Parkinson's disease, a brain tumor, depression, an adverse drug reaction or any other possible cause of dementia. If all tests are negative, AD is diagnosed by default. This conclusion may be further verified with psychological tests...