form of dementia

collocation in English

meaningsofformanddementia

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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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dementia
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˈmen.ʃə/us
/dɪˈmen.ʃə/
a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to ...
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(Definition offormanddementiafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Vascular dementia may be the most commonformofdementiain the elderly.
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The people being cared for by their spouses in this study suffered cognitive impairments from many causes, most of which were classified as someformofdementia.
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Only about 2% of people aged between 65 and 75 have someformofdementia, and this is thought to rise to 20% in those over 80.
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Estimates suggest that there are up to about 90,000 people suffering from someformofdementia.
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In both instances, the provision is aimed at those with someformofdementia, whether acute or with lesser expressions of the illness.
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Many of us will certainly know at least one person affected by this disease or anotherformofdementia.
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I wish to say something generally about this particularformofdementia.
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Alzheimer's disease is the most commonformofdementia.
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Alzheimer's disease is the most commonformofdementia, but there are others.
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To find that one of our loved ones is suffering from someformofdementiais one of the most psychologically and emotionally draining experiences a person can ever have.
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The majority of victims also suffered from aformofdementiaor cognitive impairment.
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Ideally, the person suspected of having anyformofdementiashould have a complete medical and mental health work-up done.
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It is aformofdementiaassociated with severe frontal lobe dysfunction.
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For some time before his death he suffered from a serious mental illness, probably aformofdementia, which progressed towards complete mental collapse.
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She spent decades suffering from aformofdementiathat robbed her of short-term memory.
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His death came after a long battle with primary progressive aphasia, a rareformofdementia.
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It represents the eighth leading cause of death in people over the age of 65, and is the most commonformofdementia.
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The neuropsychological characteristics of different forms of dementia are then described.
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The first provides a powerful critique of dehumanising forms of dementia care and of religion.
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She has participated in work on defining the differences between semantic memory and episodic memory which led to her identification of a newformofdementia, semantic dementia.
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