How to Use dementia in a Sentence

dementia

noun
  • This patient suffers from dementia.
  • There is no cure for Alzheimer’s, which is the most common form of dementia.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Adults over the age of 65 had a 1.2% increase in the risk of being diagnosed with dementia, the study said.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Many people would like to know how to ward off dementia.
    Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
  • My mother, who has advanced dementia, loved to sit and watch the chicks beneath the heat lamp.
    Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • What are the links between the sleep disorder and dementia?
    The Conversation, oregonlive, 29 May 2023
  • The event honors their mother, who died of dementia in 2016.
    Eileen Finan, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The sentences were about a friend of hers who’d had dementia and had recently died.
    Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Lewy body dementia can cause tremors and change sleep patterns.
    Jessica Wapner, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Her mother Hazel, who had dementia, died last May at the age of 81 in a Methuen memory care home.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Steven fills the blank spaces left by dementia with stories.
    Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Terri died at the age of 79 after a long illness with dementia.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Both drugs have been shown in studies to cut the risk of dementia in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 July 2024
  • For a long time, Edgerly wondered why so many people struggled to learn the cause of their dementia.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Mar. 2024
  • One resident with dementia was confined to the bedroom via a trash bag tied to the door handle.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Throughout the study period, there were 882 cases of dementia in the group.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In the past, Karen had been taking care of a family member who had dementia.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
  • To lower dementia risk, follow the CDC's guidelines of no more than one drink a day for women and no more than two drinks a day for men.
    Theresa Sullivan Barger, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The Supreme Court cited the late justice’s cause of death as complications due to dementia.
    Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The woman, who is diagnosed with dementia, was waiting in the ...
    Caroline Silva, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Jim Swan suffered from dementia in his later years, Sharise Swan said.
    Natalia Jaramillo, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • More than 95% of the studies of dementia drugs have failed to show the therapy slows memory decline.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • Most states in the U.S. have few or no dementia training requirements.
    Katherine O'Malley, STAT, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Glow spoke of an 82-year-old man with dementia who struggled to sleep on a bunk bed at the downtown shelter before he was transferred.
    Anita Snow, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The actress, who died this past summer, suffered from dementia in her later years and moved into a care home in Cardiff, Wales, in 2015.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Her mother, who had severe dementia, pulled her roommate off the bed, which ended up killing the roommate in 2019.
    Sahana Jayaraman, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • And on a few occasions, a wife called in fear of a husband with a diagnosis of dementia — and access to guns.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Reva suffered a stroke in 2003 and showed early signs of dementia in the hospital.
    John Rosengren, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Numerous studies have shown a link between not wearing hearing aids and the progression of dementia in people with hearing loss.
    Mill Etienne, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Fannie’s Friends support group: Fannie’s Friends is a virtual support group for adult daughters and granddaughters caring for those living with dementia.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024

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