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Many of the fears people have about aging are greatly exaggerated. Senility is probably the most dreaded of all debilities, yet only about 15% of those over 65 suffer serious mental impairment. Alzheimer's disease, now considered the scourge of old age, accounts for more than half that total. For much of the remainder, mental impairment from conditions such as heart disease, liver or thyroid trouble and dietary deficiency is either reversible or preventable...
Depression, often mistaken for senility, or dementia, is by far the single most ignored disorder among the elderly. About 15% of older people suffer from the condition, double the figure for the general population; the elderly have the highest suicide rate of any age group. Drugs account for some of the high incidence of depression. But the old are also more vulnerable because they have suffered more major stresses, including the deaths of spouses or friends, living alone, retirement from a job, serious illness. The classic symptoms of depression -- guilt, hopelessness, sleeplessness, lack of appetite, and suicidal thoughts -- are more...
Other White House insiders also suffer from Deaver's tributes. He describes Attorney General Edwin Meese as a man who would "as a matter of loyalty or conviction, sit there and deny something he knew to be true." Vice President George Bush gets high marks for calling all over the U.S. to provide a fresh joke for the President's daily briefing...
...J.A.M.A. account of Debbie's death also underscores a fact of medical life: terminally ill cancer patients often suffer unnecessarily because doctors hold back narcotics for fear their patients will become addicted -- even when they have only weeks or months to live. This casts doubt over the profession's reassurances that pain will be controlled. And the dread of unrelenting pain is one factor that may encourage patients and doctors alike to blur the line between letting death occur and causing...
...violence. They view beatings and bullets as the primary solutions to problems they face, and are willing to apply those remedies widely. At the other end of the spectrum are soldiers who shrink from the brutal acts they are ordered to perform. Confused over where their loyalties lie, they suffer from nightmares, depression and lack of motivation. Says the psychologist: "They feel trapped between a commitment to our value system and norms of behavior, and a commitment to the army and its orders. Do they obey the call of orders or the call of conscience...