senile dementia

senile dementia
senile dementia n a mental disorder of old age esp. of the degenerative type associated with Alzheimer's disease called also senile psychosis

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loss of the intellectual faculties often associated with behavioural deterioration, beginning for the first time in old age. See also dementia.

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dementia in the elderly, usually meaning persons over the age of 65; since most cases are due to Alzheimer disease, the term is sometimes used as a synonym of d. of the Alzheimer type, late onset.

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