What to know about senility and dementia
From the Medical News Today website
A person may use “senility” to describe a decrease in the ability to think, concentrate, or remember.
Senility and “being senile” are old-fashioned terms, and some people use them to refer to dementia.
A contemporary term that doctors use is “neurocognitive disorder” which might be either minor or major. For example, they may diagnose minor neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease — a type of dementia.
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