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dementia

noun as in a brain disease/disorder

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Clark Bellin, a financial advisor in Lincoln, Neb., says he would consider a concierge practice for his 86-year-old father, who has mild dementia and is losing his hearing.

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The mother of a four-year-old boy has said her "heart is broken" after he was diagnosed with a form of childhood dementia.

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The actor died early Tuesday morning in Palm Springs, her manager confirmed to Variety, after being placed in hospice last week with a diagnosis of dementia.

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Reflecting on the latter years of his friendship with Terry Jones, Sir Michael Palin says that even as dementia took many things from his Monty Python co-star, his humour remained.

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Actor Prunella Scales, who played Sybil in the short-lived but incredibly popular British sitcom ‘Fawlty Towers,’ has died at 93 after years with dementia.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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