noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
senile dementia
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
senile
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Mr Allsopp was known to suffer from senile dementia and was often seen walking in the area.
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In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation, madness, and senile dementia .
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I've heard there's a link between this condition and senile dementia .
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The main gap was in provision for elderly people with senile dementia and for the new long-stay population.
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Most studies have investigated senile dementia in relatively small populations.
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He is suffering from senile dementia: the deterioration of a super brain.
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Alzheimer's Disease was now widely known and recognised as an incurable form of senile dementia .
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Maybe he was suffering from premature senile dementia ?
■ NOUN
sufferer
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A warden can perhaps cope with one or two dementia sufferers .
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From a medical practitioner familiar with the dementia sufferer .
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Geriatric day hospitals, despite having a considerable minority of dementia sufferers have not in general tackled the issue of integration.
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Table 4.1 shows where the dementia sufferers were living six months and 12 months after referral to the psychogeriatric service.
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Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home.
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The costs may be particularly worrying for dementia sufferers .
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It is interesting that half the carers said they would like to see the dementia sufferer in residential care.
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Table 6.1 makes no distinction between different types of dementia sufferer .
■ VERB
suffer
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Mr Allsopp was known to suffer from senile dementia and was often seen walking in the area.
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Mrs Lenihan, who suffers from dementia is now said to be comfortable in hospital in Oxford.
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It had apparently been hoped that the numbers of long-term patients suffering from dementia would diminish with the rundown of the asylums.
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As many as 20 percent of people over 80 may be suffering from dementia , but no accurate figures are available.
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He suffered from dementia and schizophrenia.
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He is suffering from senile dementia: the deterioration of a super brain.
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Maybe he was suffering from premature senile dementia ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, dementia is seen as being specific to the elderly age groups.
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Interestingly, the dementia from this disease has different characteristics than the symptoms of Alzheimer's.
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Specialist, separate services for dementia sufferers v Negative segregation, that is, the refusal to accept dementing people into a service.
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Subjects - All patients with onset of dementia aged 40-64.
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The admission of a tenant already showing signs of dementia requires very careful consideration in the individual case.
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The vast majority, 95 percent, of deaths certified as due to dementia were among those aged 65 +.
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This is especially so when a diagnosis of dementia blinds works to remaining skills.