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Dementia in sentence

92 examples of Dementia in a sentence

The first was Mike Webster, 50 years old, already had dementia.
We've also been lucky to have people like Brandi Chastain, the women's soccer icon, NASCAR's Dale Earnhardt Jr. Just two weeks ago, Hall-of-Famer Nick Buoniconti who had been diagnosed with dementia, signed up to pledge his brain.
And what if I told you that same thing could actually last a long time and protect your brain from different conditions like depression, Alzheimer's disease or dementia.
So with increased exercise over your lifetime, you're not going to cure dementia or Alzheimer's disease, but what you're going to do is you're going to create the strongest, biggest hippocampus and prefrontal cortex so it takes longer for these diseases to actually have an effect.
They have what I called "logorrhea dementia," which is they talk so much they drive themselves insane.
It's also associated with higher levels of dementia.
But being a caregiver for a partner that maybe has dementia can be a very lonely place.
There's about 35 million people globally living with some kind of dementia, and by 2030 they're expecting that to double to 70 million.
The confused faces and shaky hands of people who have dementia, the big numbers of people who get it, they frighten us.
Or, we decide that we're going to prevent dementia, and it will never happen to us because we're going to do everything right and it won't come and get us.
He got dementia anyway.
When you get dementia, it gets harder and harder to enjoy yourself.
When you care for someone with dementia, and you get training, they train you to engage them in activities that are familiar, hands-on, open-ended.
I need a heart so pure that if it's stripped bare by dementia, it will survive.
Now some of you here look a bit astonished by that number, but consider for a moment the incredible diversity of mental illnesses, from autism and intellectual disability in childhood, through to depression and anxiety, substance misuse and psychosis in adulthood, all the way through to dementia in old age, and I'm pretty sure that each and every one us present here today can think of at least one person, at least one person, who's affected by mental illness in our most intimate social networks.
My mother had dementia and no longer recognized me, and my children had grown up.
Imagine the ripples of this notion for the millions of people living and dying with dementia.
People with CTE suffer from changes in their mood and behavior that begin appearing in their 30s or 40s followed by problems with thinking and memory that can, in some cases, even result in dementia.
There is information that a repeated history of concussion can lead to early dementia, such as Alzheimer's, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Second reason: it's been shown that if you speak two languages, dementia is less likely to set in, and that you are probably a better multitasker.
It's used in nursing homes and with dementia patients.
Within months or years, this progressively worsening condition leads to dementia and death.
And what we learned is that walking just 30 minutes a day can single-handedly decrease 50 percent of your risk of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even Alzheimer's and dementia.
But for the millions who suffer from Alzheimer's and dementia, the difference that augmented memory could make is a difference between a life of isolation and a life of dignity and connection.
The power of such face-to-face contact is really why there are the lowest rates of dementia among people who are socially engaged.
Dementia rates are dropping, too.
A few examples: a study from the University of California, Los Angeles of people who are caring for a relative with dementia, long-term, and looked at their caregiver's telomere maintenance capacity and found that it was improved by them practicing a form of meditation for as little as 12 minutes a day for two months.
They know how your mother likes her tea, how to make her smile and tell stories despite her dementia.
Now, with any Alzheimer's, dementia, there's a certain amount of frustration and sadness for everyone involved.
Her dementia had gotten to the point where it was unsafe for her to be in my house.
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