Definitions
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- noun a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness
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Examples
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So I bought several pairs and it reminded me of when back several years ago I worked in an alzheimer's retirement home and I always took care of a patient that wanted her pantyhose on and would ask for them.
Beach Scenes 2009
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Applauding a Senator is sort of like humoring your grandfather who has alzheimer's. mjm
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But my work is still "homemaking", I take care of 8-10 alzheimer's patients in a home environment.
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Reagan was also too old and then we later learned that he had been suffering from the onset of alzheimer's the whole time (remember the Iran - Contra hearings and "I don't recall" over and over?)
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May 8th, 2008 9: 33 pm ET yes he is old and in old age there are high chances of getting alzheimer's.
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The doctor said the man's brain resembled that of an 85 year old alzheimer's patient.
Medical Term Steve Perry 2010
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His doco about living with alzheimer's was quite interesting, and rather sad as well.
Pratchett becomes the first novelist to give the Dimbleby Lecture Adam Whitehead 2010
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I'm so sorry to hear about the alzheimer's but so amazed that he was your prof ... at Brandeis?
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McBomb only regrets that he couldn't have done a whole lot more needless killing of foreign innocents, and he fears nothing more than that he might not get another -- and last -- chance to kill a great many more before cancer rots his face or alzheimer's finishes off what little he has of a brain.
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Coal-burning power plants can release mercury into the atmosphere even knowing the cost in psychotic episodes, kidnapping and murdering children, murder/suicides, "going postal", families killed by complete strangers or each other, increased incidence of autism, diabetes, alzheimer's, psychosis by chemical neuropathies -- the utter breakdown of the social contract and respect for "inalienable rights".
GOP Psychosis 2009
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