Posted on 07/06/2024 7:03:25 AM PDT by dennisw
it has sure looked like something other than, or in addition to, simple advanced age senility or dementia
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Also, possibly JoeK’s reason for holding that pen for the Stephy interview was to hide developing tremors?
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Dr. Cannard is a Neurologist and Movement Disorders specialist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
He trained at Walter Reed in Neurology. After six years of general neurology experience, he completed a Movement Disorders fellowship at Emory under deep brain stimulation (DBS) pioneer Dr. Mahlon DeLong.
He later completed a fellowship and is board certified in Clinical Pharmacology that included training at the FDA’s CDER Neurology Division and at NIH.
He currently serves as Associate Professor of Neurology (F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, USU) and core residency faculty at Walter Reed where he is active in teaching at all levels.
Dr. Cannard has received several teaching awards including two AAN AB Baker Teacher Recognition Awards. He is active in clinical research with his partners at Vanderbilt University, collaborating on studies of Deep Brain Stimulation therapy in early phase Parkinson’s Disease.
His practice encompasses both general neurology as well as movement disorders as part of the residency training program at Walter Reed. He has over 30 years of experience in the use of botulinum toxin for the treatment of movement disorders, spasticity, and pain syndromes to include headache.
The first 20 years of his medical career was spent on active duty in the U.S. Army, retiring as a Colonel in 2008. He has been a civilian physician at Walter Reed ever since.
Dementia patients can’t make decisions.
You’ve got some things confused here.
A diagnosis of “dementia” per se does not preclude anyone from making decisions about their futures, placement, finances or whatever. In fact, a diagnosis of “dementia” is simply a category of mental dysfunction that can be attributed to many definitive diagnoses. Many things cause dementia that is to say.
When it comes to decision-making, a diagnosis of dementia alone does not say much about the person’s level of functioning because there are multiple types of dementia and each type can vary in severity according to the stage of progression it is in.
The short of this is that determining the causes of dementia is a medical exercise. But determining competency to make decisions is a legal one.
People with dementia, regardless of cause, can make their own decisions until it is legally proven they cannot.
The other thing to realize is that Parkinson’s Disease has been well established as a cause of dementia.
Theres more to consider in Biden’s case than your post suggests.
Don’t put it past the Senior Skank. It would not surprise me if she did a “Parkinson’s reveal” then played the handicapped bias card. “He’s fine except for Parkinson’s. Are you biased against handicapped people?”
Allowing dementia patients to make decisions isn’t sensible... As soon as you’ve been diagnosed that you have dementia, pick a person... That person will make your decisions... Not you. In Joe’s case, this would Jill.
“People with dementia, regardless of cause, can make their own decisions until it is legally proven they cannot.”
That is correct—and is why folks with dementia only need to remember one thing—stay away from lawyers.
Everyone should write it down and hang it up on their wall as a reminder—for when they get dementia.
;-)
You have an internal contradiction here that illustrates my point.
If someone diagnosed with dementia cannot make decisions, then how can that person with dementia choose who speaks for them. Picking that spokesman would be a decision that the demented person would not be able to do.
Im not trying to give you a hard time here. But people who have dementia typically have.a cause for it that is progressive. This means that early on in the course of the disease they may be capable of self-determination only to lose that capacity later on.
Again, dementia and what causes it is a medical determination. Losing decision-making capacity is a legal one based on the level of practical impairment that the person with dementia has … e.g., can they balance a checkbook, find their way home from the store, understand a contract well enough to enter into it, meet their own needs adequately without the help of others, and so forth.
You have an internal contradiction here that illustrates my point.
If someone diagnosed with dementia cannot make decisions, then how can that person with dementia choose who speaks for them. Picking that spokesman would be a decision that the demented person would not be able to do.
Im not trying to give you a hard time here. But people who have dementia typically have.a cause for it that is progressive. This means that early on in the course of the disease they may be capable of self-determination only to lose that capacity later on.
Again, dementia and what causes it is a medical determination. Losing decision-making capacity is a legal one based on the level of practical impairment that the person with dementia has … e.g., can they balance a checkbook, find their way home from the store, understand a contract well enough to enter into it, meet their own needs adequately without the help of others, and so forth.
In the tradition of Clinton/Lynch, they discussed golf and grandchildren. Several times.
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Did you leave something out? I didn’t read anywhere in there that he is a distinguished member of the LGBTQ+LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - Pansexual/Platesexual/Utensilsexual person who believes they are an iguana ... community. I thought that was a requirement these days?!?
Rhetorical, I know. We all are aware why they are letting this out.
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