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senile dementia

NOUN
progressive cognitive decline in old age
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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



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