How to Use dementia in a Sentence

dementia

noun

• This patient suffers from dementia.
• 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 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
• Steven fills the blank spaces left by dementia with stories.
  — Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• 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
• The Supreme Court cited the late justice’s cause of death as complications due to dementia.
  — Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fox News Digital spoke with the study authors and other dementia experts to learn more.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Latest news on heart health How levels of 'good' cholesterol may increase risk of dementia.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 9 Oct. 2023
• In May, the family revealed that 95-year-old Rosalynn Carter has dementia.
  — Ernie Suggs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 7 July 2023
• Then came a debilitating stroke for my mom and dementia for my dad.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Less than a month later, my dad was diagnosed with dementia.
  — Angie Mazakis, The Atlantic, 29 June 2023
• Three months later, the family revealed that 96-year-old Rosalynn, his wife of 77 years, has dementia.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• Alzheimer's disease is estimated to be the cause of up to 70% of the 55 million people globally with dementia.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
• Porter Place residents selling bracelets to help Hawaii Some area seniors with dementia are trying to make a difference one bead at a time.
  — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
• Seaver, his good friend and former roommate, did not attend after the Hall of Fame pitcher was diagnosed with dementia.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• Some research has found that essential oils can help calm down dementia patients.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• The former first lady, who was diagnosed with dementia in May, continues to live at home with her husband.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2023
• Their love story, which unfolds over some 60 years, is recounted in the present day by a much older Noah to Allie, who is suffering from dementia.
  — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024
• He is also trained to search open areas where a hiker or someone with dementia could get lost, as well as conduct building searches.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
• Then, in May, the Carter family announced that Rosalynn has been diagnosed with dementia.
  — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
• One of the objectives in the Orland Park Library’s 2021 strategic plan was to add more programming and services for people with dementia and their caregivers.
  — Kimberly Fornek, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
• Maria moved into a nursing home in 2015, after she was diagnosed with dementia.
  — Christie Thompson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• The study builds on prior studies from Scotland and France that also showed a link between playing soccer and the development of dementia.
  — Dr. Alexander Garcia, ABC News, 20 July 2023
• Diagnosis rates for the leading cause of dementia remain low and costly in China.
  — Kanoko Matsuyama, Bloomberg.com, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024