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4. Dementia is just an umbrella term
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:28 AM
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For a wide range of neurological and neurodegenerative disorders that can cause cognitive decline.

I currently work in behavioral health (mostly children and adolescents these days), am in a nursing program doing rotations in a stroke unit, and spent over a decade in social services mostly working with Adult and Aging services, so I've been around a few blocks with these things.

What I will say is - don't trust Twitter professionals diagnosing from afar. Only physicians who have done an actual assessment of an individual can pinpoint what someone's neurological issues may be.

Asking for a med list for dementia is asking for a few dozen medications that might be used depending on the patient and what's going on with them.

Trump seems to be declining. It'll be interesting to see if he even makes it through the full term. But what exactly is wrong with him is basically speculation and quasi-educated guessing. Only his doctors know, and if it came out that his doctors never even bothered testing him for the purposes of plausible deniability, this will be my surprised face.

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