An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.
    

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O, let me not get Alzheimer's, sweet heaven! : why many people prefer death or active deliverance to living with dementia.

Irvine, Annabella (fl. 1854-1856), elderly asylum inmate

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Helen Odell-Miller: archives

O, let me not get Alzheimer's, sweet heaven! : why many people prefer death or active deliverance to living with dementia.

Irvine, Annabella (fl. 1854-1856), elderly asylum inmate