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senility n. Old age. The mental and physical deterioration associated with aging. ... senility (sənil'ətē), deterioration of body and mind associated with old age. Indications of old age vary in the time of their appearance.
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Often, doctors and family members disregard these symptoms, thinking that they are just signs of an inevitable age-related decline. But many cases of pseudo-senility, ... Statins are an even bigger offender. Half the people in old-age homes are there because statin side-effects are being mistaken for dementia.
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newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/when-it-isnt-really-senility/
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Even though senile (first recorded in 1661) and senility (first recorded in 1778) initially had neutral senses such as "pertaining to old age" (the sense of their Latin source, the adjective senīlis), it is probable that the mental decline that sometimes accompanies old age eventually caused negative senses to predominate.
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making a distinction between normal old age and senile deterioration, and the tension between these categories permeated the geriatrics ...
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muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_medicine_and_allied_sciences/v055/55.4hirshbein.pdf
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1. the state or quality of being old, especially, being afflicted with the infirmity of body and mind that sometimes comes with old age. 2. Informal. ... senility - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations...
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www.thefreedictionary.com/senility
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Laugh out loud with Praize Christian Jokes. We have clean humor for all ages. ... or those of us who are getting a little older: God grant me the Senility to forget the people ; I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference...
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The main causes of dementia at old age are Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. The clinical presentations of late-onset Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia can barely be differentiated. This clinical observation is supported by pathological findings.
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You may have heard someone say to a person who seems too picky, "You are just obsessive-compulsive!" But what does it really mean? ... An obsession is a thought, an idea, or an image that you cannot get out of your mind. Common obsessions involve ... Compulsions are physical or mental acts that you perform over and over.
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www.uihealthcare.com/topics/mentalemotionalhealth/ment3160.html
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Not only may life itself be shortened by a sparing or otherwise faulty and insufficient diet, but the condition of old age-senility-is brought on long before its time. Moderation in diet is a great virtue, but when carried to excess, like all other virtues, it becomes a vice. ... He died at a comparatively early age,
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www.oldandsold.com/articles30/health-and-diet-82.shtml
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