Word: dementiaism
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...other Johnson signified J. Seward's six litigious children from his two previous marriages, excised from the old man's will shortly before his death in 1983 at the age of 87. Was Basia a sorceress who abused and then fleeced a victim of senile dementia? Or were the children, all of them financially independent, avid for the $500 million at stake? Barbara Goldsmith, a journalist who specializes in histories of family distress (Little Gloria . . . Happy At Last), unearths a scandalous past of suicide attempts, drug addiction, incest and accusations of attempted murder. What the plaintiffs wanted, she shows...
This is the same man whose gaffes and misstatements are so routine that they have virtually vanished from the news. This is the same man who lapsed into dementia during his first debate with Walter Mondale in 1984, the same man whose thoughts wandered down the Pacific Coast Highway and got lost during debate...
...that it is possible to make significant inroads against the virus," says Broder, "even in patients who are quite advanced." AZT not only prolongs survival, he explains, but produces "clinical improvements: weight gains, increased energy, neurological improvements." It can reverse one of the most disturbing symptoms of advanced AIDS: dementia and loss of mental function...
...loved one, it is still impossible to name the slow killer with absolute certainty. Only after the patient has died and an autopsy is done can the core of the brain be examined for the telltale dead nerve cells and tangled fibers that denote Alzheimer's disease, the senile dementia now recognized as the nation's fourth largest killer...
...condition was first identified in 1906, when German Physician Alois Alzheimer autopsied the brain of a woman with classic senile dementia. Because the woman was middle-aged, however, and because senility was considered a natural consequence of aging, Alzheimer's disease went unrecognized among the elderly until the 1960s. Today it is believed that Alzheimer's affects 5% to 10% of people over the age of 65, including half of all nursing- home residents...