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
When he brandished his statistics and the results of the last elections in front of them, his own party members suspected they were just the senile rantings of an old man.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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