senile dementia
Example Sentences
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Girls had to assist in caring for the elderly, including men suffering from senile dementia.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023
Surgeons had removed a neck tumor a few years earlier, and he would soon endure hip replacement surgery and be found to have mild senile dementia.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2018
Wandering around in the middle of the night in his nightshirt, he enters into a conversation with his impatient wife, Anne, who shows signs of senile dementia.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2018
He is, I believe, in the beginning stages of senile dementia, a disease that runs in our family.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2017
I was uncertain if this referred to Bud or to a literal blue jay, or if, perhaps, we were heading into the territory of senile dementia.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
