How to use dementia in a sentence

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• The old woman with dementia lost her mental acuity.From the entry acuity
• She bought me a book of brainteasers, which is both entertaining and also supposedly good for decreasing dementia risk.From the entry brainteaser
• He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.From the entry subcortical
• She hoped it wasn’t a symptom of a tumor or early-onset dementia.2008, Francine Prose, chapter 4, in Goldengrove: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: HarperLuxe, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry déjà vu
• Alzheimer's disease and related dementias have come to be defined as biomedical in nature.2007, Athena McLean, The person in dementia: a study in nursing home care in the US, page 28. From the entry biomedical
• Scatolia is not uncommon among dementia sufferers, and is very distressing to their carers.2000, Alan Jacques, Graham A. Jackson, Understanding Dementia, page 170. From the entry scatolia
• Approximately 20% of all dementiae can be reversed if they are correctly diagnosed and treated.1986, The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry, page 508, column 1. From the entry dementiae
• Most of those unfortunate women are the victims of religious dementia.1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4. From the entry tea fight
• Pick’s disease was like dementia for middle-aged people.2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 127. From the entry Pick's disease
• Further, the association between semantic intrusion errors and the progression to dementia among those with aMCI has not been examined.2021 June 23, Elizabeth A Crocco, Rosie E Curiel, Marcela Kitaigorodsky, Gabriella A Grau, Jessica M Garcia, Ranjan Duara, Warren Barker…. From the entry intrusion
• Regular mental exercise keeps the circuits of the brain active and healthy and reduces the risk of dementia.2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry exercise
• Major trials show an association between the use of 'sleepers' known as benzodiazepines and an increased risk of developing dementia.2017 October 21, Ellie Cannon, “ASK DR ELLIE: Why do I have itchy arms in the autumn and is insomnia a warning of Dementia?”, in Daily…. From the entry sleeper
• Patients with IPD also present a variety of nonmotor symptoms such as sleep disorders, hyposmia, depression, constipation, hallucinations and dementia.2015 July 16, “Sleep Disorders in Parkinsonian and Nonparkinsonian LRRK2 Mutation Carriers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry nonmotor
• Haploinsufficiency of the human progranulin gene, GRN, causes frontotemporal dementia.2015 August 7, “The Evolution of the Secreted Regulatory Protein Progranulin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry progranulin
• The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry concrete
• It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian. From the entry staff
• It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions.2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian. From the entry cope with
• Dementiae can arise from such things as depression, drug reactions and nutritional deficiencies as well as from brain disease.1998 November, Judy Dothard Simmons, “Alzheimer’s Disease News Mixed: Prevention, cure still elusive but treatment picture improves”, in…. From the entry dementiae
• Most striking, numerous studies have even shown that bilinguals undergo a later onset of dementia, perhaps of around four years, on average.2025 June 27, “Is being bilingual good for your brain?”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025. From the entry bilingual
• Also, only one of the 10 senior daycare centers in Manhattan’s Chinatown serves elders with dementia, Hamilton-Madison House (HMH) Social Adult Day Center.2016 August 23, “The Dementia Dilemma: NY's Chinese Caregivers Find Support in Each Other”, in New America Media. From the entry HMH
• The notes on the flash drive showed a steady progression into dementia, a deteriorating mental state directly linked to incidents of exposure to Sovereign.2007, Drew Karpyshyn, Mass Effect: Revelation (Science Fiction), Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 321. From the entry in too deep
• This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia diagnosis.2023 August 31, “What's on in the Lords 4-7 September”, in UK Parliament. From the entry quiz
• But the willowy, elegant interloper—who was trendily Afrimerican to boot, which seemed to a liberal New York family like cheating—was stricken with dementia in her late fifties.2016, Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047. From the entry Afrimerican
• A better understanding of the pathogenic events leading to dementia in variant TTR meningovascular amyloidosis may lead to novel treatment strategies for this debilitating and fatal disease.2015 July 10, Jennifer L. Ziskin et al., “Neuropathologic analysis of Tyr69His TTR variant meningovascular amyloidosis with dementia”, in…. From the entry meningovascular
• Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in The Guardian. From the entry report
• Suppose very little besides what is provided by death is needed, eg, a few undemented minutes with friends and family in addition to the end of dementia.1998, M Pabst Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, Anita Silvers, Physician assisted suicide: expanding the debate. From the entry undemented
• In mental asthenia which approaches the state of the higher stages of imbecility and also in secondary dementia, states consequent on psychic degeneration, we find the same truth illustrated.1914, Boris Sidis, The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology. From the entry asthenia

Meaning of dementia

1. noun A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
2. noun Madness or insanity.

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Questions about dementia in a sentence

How do you use dementia in a sentence?

Dementia is used as a noun. For example: “The old woman with dementia lost her mental acuity.”

What is a short sentence with dementia?

“He was diagnosed with subcortical dementia.”

What does dementia mean?

Dementia means a progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.