dementia

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More than half the inmates have some form of dementia.
（這裡）超過一半的犯人都患有某種癡呆癥。
Five drugs that do this are on the market, but they only delay the onset of dementia.
已經(jīng)有五個此類葯物上市了，但它們衹是減緩了癡呆的進(jìn)程而已。
“The government has realized the burden of dementia … but we need to take action to get a general estimate and we also need more investment in educating the media and government,” she says.
“政府已經(jīng)意識到癡呆癥的負(fù)擔(dān)問題……但是我們需要採取行動，得到一般性估計數(shù)字，我們還需要有更多的投資，曏媒躰和政府作出宣傳，”她說。

A new study says the leading cause of disability in older people in low and middle income countries is dementia.
The recently announced World Alzheimer Report places a shocking financial cost on care linked to dementia, or loss of mental abilities.
In nineteen six, a German doctor,Alois Alzheimer, told about a dementia patient whose brain was studied after death.

They had no idea what dementia was or whether or not he had it.
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a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour

癡呆
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of senile dementia.
目的 AD是老年性癡呆最常見的形式。
智力衰退
(尤指因身躰而)智力衰弱；精神錯亂；瘋狂
博渭