My own father has early dementia and can only receive one assessment per year, unless there is a major event that warrants a new assessment. I was told that reassessment every 3 months means a diagnosis has been made, and prognosis is poor. The repeated assessments are to track decline. |
| When he boasts for the umpteenth time about naming the animals, someone should ask him how he did with drawing a clock to show a specific time. |
In no way defending Trump, but in fairness he is POTUS. They are making up the protocol on how to monitor a President for dementia as they go, so they might be testing him more often. This is unprecedented. Whatever decline Biden was showing, it wasn't dementia...so I don't think he had these tests. |
| I'm waiting for his physician's post-exam comments where he claims that Trump is so healthy that he will live as long as Methuselah (who lived 969 years, according to the Bible). |
Biden didn't and doesn't have dementia. It was all projection. Yes, he was and is old. But he was still sharp in terms of general command of what was going on around him. Yes, he had gaffes and yes, the debate was a disaster, but neither are or were reflective of clinical dementia. |
I always wonder how people in the Bible lived so long. Did they have better medical knowledge back then, or were people just eating that much healthier? |
Projection indeed, the typical GOP playbook: every accusation is a confession. It is so infuriating that the media hammered Biden and people spread all the dementia rumors when he had physical slowing. Trump is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, completely incompetent and they are just now starting to hint at things. This is BS 25th now. |
Or maybe the Bible is a bunch of fairy tales? Who knows? |
My parents called their children by the wrong name many times before they were elderly but that's probably because they were so harried taking care of five kids. However, that's not what's happening with Trump. He says the wrong thing so often that clearly it's not just inadvertent misstatements. So to agree with your point, he's too old regardless of whether it's old age or dementia. |
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Dr. Jonathan Reiner on CNN:
“The president has severe daytime somnolence… Chronic insomnia is a severe illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people.” |
They didn’t, really. 1. They counted time differently, their years may have been much shorter. 2. Without birth certificates, one would have to rely on self report or unconfirmed info to determine date of birth. |