Word: dementia
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...memory, her personality and finally all cognitive function. But advanced age does not automatically lead to senility. Ada's fellow nun, Sister Rosella, 89, continues to be mentally sharp and totally alert, eagerly anticipating the celebration of her 70th anniversary as a sister without the slightest sign of dementia. In a very real sense, this pair of retired schoolteachers haven't finished their teaching careers. Along with hundreds of other nuns in their order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, they have joined a long-term study of Alzheimer's disease that could teach the rest...
SENIOR MOMENTS Doctors know Alzheimer's can shorten a patient's life. But now Canadian researchers report that once someone is found to have Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the median survival may be only about three years--one-half to two-thirds less than previously thought...
...brief but telling interview. The sort of gibberish offered up by Pinochet in answer to specific charges might charitably be imagined as the playing out of his legal defense strategy of pleading senile dementia so as to evade his day in court. But there's something else in those answers. Something particularly disturbing to the Chilean military, whose leaders have by and large stood by Pinochet through his legal ordeal...
...phenomenon described as chronic suicide. Depressed old people may eat improperly, refuse to take medications and in general passively fail to take care of themselves until they die. Others may enter into a suicide pact with a partner. This usually occurs in response to one partner's developing dementia or being admitted to a nursing home...
...accounts, a horrific way to die. First come mood swings and numbness, then hallucinations, uncontrolled body movements and finally a progressive dementia that destroys the mind as thoroughly as Alzheimer's disease--except that this illness can strike...