A study in the current issue of the journal Neurology examined 911 nonagenarian Americans and found that 45 percent of the women had dementia, compared with 25 percent of the men.
Ms Martin's dementia interferes with her insight and it may be considered acceptable to override her autonomy by reference to the principle of non-maleficence - the requirement to prevent harm.
I've seen more than a few hives throwing off a swarm, and never has one failed to transfix me utterly, or to dumbfound everyone else within sight of it.
The research points out that smoking may cause the risk of ablepsia, brain injury in old age, Alzheimer's disease and other kinds of dementia among old people.
An abnormal condition variously characterized by stupor, stereotypy, mania, and either rigidity or extreme flexibility of the limbs.It is most often associated with schizophrenia.
That's why your muscles can start to atrophy if you don't use them for long enough, and why failing to stay active and learn new things can greatly increase the risk of developing dementia as you get older.
That then led us to take her to the doctor, and they were able to look at all her other symptoms, and we were able to then have a diagnosis that she had frontal temporal lobe dementia.