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Dementia
In Henk ten Have & Maria do Céu Patrão Neves, Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 395-395 (2021)
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Dementia is characterized by chronic and progressive decline in mental ability. It is not a specific disease but refers to a group of conditions affecting memory, communication, language, ability to focus and pay attention, reasoning, judgment, and visual perception.Author's Profile
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