How to Use dementia in a Sentence

dementia

noun

• This patient suffers from dementia.
• Reva suffered a stroke in 2003 and showed early signs of dementia in the hospital.
  — John Rosengren, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• Other antibodies and strategies have chased amyloid’s removal, but lecanemab is the first to do so and clearly delay the onset of dementia symptoms.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 30 Nov. 2022
• These effects are postulated and not confirmed by trials specifically designed to look at dementia.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
• Patients had an average score of about 3.2 when the study started, and were considered to have mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Johnny flips through treasured vinyl in a brown and blue velour polo that his grandmother, suffering from dementia, may have procured in the neighborhood during more lucid times.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Dec. 2022
• Wendy Williams' battle with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) has taken a sad turn.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2024
• Among a host of gifted supporting singers, Kyle Ketelsen stood out for his wrenching turn as Richard, a poet-novelist in the grip of aids dementia.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
• Her grandmother has dementia and has to take 13 different medications.
  — Madison Lammert, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
• The symptoms only get worse from there as the disease progresses: dementia, speech and vision issues, and Parkinson's-like symptoms with muscle motor control.
  — New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
• How can a story that touches upon topics including ageism, dementia, loss, grief, and loneliness, amongst other heartbreaks that come with aging, be considered a comedy?
  — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• There is no cure for Alzheimer’s, which is the most common form of dementia.
  — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The woman, who is diagnosed with dementia, was waiting in the ...
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
• 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

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024