Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YOUR ROCKER Some seniors actually benefit from sitting in a rocking chair. For those with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia, rocking 80 minutes daily seems to reduce anxiety and depression--and improve their sense of balance...
Most hospitals had turned down Grayson, who had slipped into AIDS-related dementia...
...fantasy and into his and her reality," says Nettie Jones. But Bob had a volatile background. As a student at Wayne State University, he had written a column for the campus newspaper that he signed "A. Violence." As he got older, Bob appeared to slip into dementia. In 1974, a delusional Bob fired a gun into another apartment in his building in Staten Island, N.Y. It led to a seven-hour police siege, at the end of which he jumped out the window of the sixth-story apartment, proclaiming...
...drug is known to increase the number of hot flashes, which are usually triggered by the brain's attempts to deal with falling hormone levels. This suggests that raloxifene might act as an antiestrogen in the brain. Recent studies have shown that estrogen may provide some protection against dementia and other types of nerve disorders. Therefore, taking raloxifene for long periods of time could theoretically increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease...
...Johnson '99 as the boomin Col. Cathcart; Ollie M. Lewis '00 as the dying Clevinger; Andrew K. Mandel '00 as the expressive Chaplain; and Joe A Nuccio '00 as the mercurial Milo. Nearly all of the characters these seven actors play, however, are entertaining and endearing in their dementia--there is simply not room to mention them all here. At moments, their performances are so colorful that mere descriptions are unable to do them justice...