How to Use dementia in a Sentence

dementia

noun

• This patient suffers from dementia.
• Many people would like to know how to ward off dementia.
  — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Her mother Hazel, who had dementia, died last May at the age of 81 in a Methuen memory care home.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2023
• Steven fills the blank spaces left by dementia with stories.
  — Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• Terri died at the age of 79 after a long illness with dementia.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• Both drugs have been shown in studies to cut the risk of dementia in patients with Type 2 diabetes.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 July 2024
• 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
• Throughout the study period, there were 882 cases of dementia in the group.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
• To lower dementia risk, follow the CDC's guidelines of no more than one drink a day for women and no more than two drinks a day for men.
  — Theresa Sullivan Barger, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Most states in the U.S. have few or no dementia training requirements.
  — Katherine O'Malley, STAT, 27 Mar. 2024
• 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
• One of the best players ever to wear a Cowboys uniform suffers from late-stage dementia.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• Fox News Digital spoke with the study authors and other dementia experts to learn more.
  — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2024
• My father is a cancer survivor and has been taking care of my mother, who has mild dementia.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
• 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
• This is associated with a very high risk for stroke, dementia, and death.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 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
• Carole Morton, who is wheelchair bound and cares for her husband, who has dementia, put in a request to have the trim on her house painted.
  — Allie Torgan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
• An aging artist battles dementia while seeking to relive his past during a folk theatre festival.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024