senile
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Especially if a person seems to go senile very quickly, check their vitamin B12!
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024
She has no choice but to carry this pregnancy to term, surrounded by jealous novitiates, senile nuns, controlling male leadership and a secret sect of the sisterhood who wear crimson shrouds over their faces.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
Girls had to assist in caring for the elderly, including men suffering from senile dementia.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023
She entered hospice care in late December 2022 with senile degeneration of the brain and was treated with the anxiety drug lorazepam and morphine, a painkiller, according to the report.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
It had come to him from a senile monk, Brother Cyrus.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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