Was it Alzheimer's?

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Paul Austin
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Carl Hayden and Strom Thurmond are U.S. examples where politicians with advanced age and memory loss from dementia were made to stay in office despite their growing incapacity, simply because their parties wanted to keep the benefits that the two men's seniority in the Senate brought them,
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Chris Eccleston fronts a new campaign for Alzheimer's Research, #sharetheorange

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Anita Bensoussane wrote:Some people with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia do indeed live for many years with the illness, even when it's severe enough for them to require full-time care. Enid Blyton's mother Theresa suffered from dementia and apparently spent the last 20 years of her life in a care home, according to the 1996 Secret Lives TV programme. That means she would only have been about 56 when she went to live in the home.
Anita, I once read that Rita Hayworth was still in her 40's when the first signs of dementia appeared. In her last movies she had to read her text from a tele prompter (sp?).
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Moonraker wrote:Of the over 85s, 1 in 4 (1 in 12 of the over 65s) now have a form of dementia. Isn't that scary?
Yes, it is very scary, Nigel!
Many mothers of my former class mates and even colleagues (some 10 to 15 years younger than me) developed Alzheimer's over the past 10 years.
My mom is 87 and still follows the world news, discusses them with me and reads novels, she's lucky.
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