Posted on 07/12/2024 2:29:51 PM PDT by Libloather
Slowed speech, pauses, and using the same handful of words.
If you've witnessed these habits in an elderly loved one, it could be an early warning sign of dementia.
New research is beginning to untangle what the natural signs of aging look like and which could be due to serious brain conditions when it comes to how people talk.
For example, forgetting the name of a person, place or having difficulty finding words is natural and linked to memory retrieval, which gets worse as we get older.
However, this combined with slowed or slurring speech, blank pauses, and limited vocabulary may represent broader decline, signaling conditions like dementia and Parkinson's.
That was the finding of a University of Toronto study in February, which looked at over 100 adults ages 18 to 90. Those who were unable to quickly verbalize what they were looking at in pictures were more likely to say the wrong word.
The findings may be considered timely, as lawmakers and voters repeatedly call for President Joe Biden to step down over concerns about his cognitive health.
The 81-year-old suffered another disastrous press conference this week, during which he repeatedly misspoke and lost his train of thought.
At one point, he mistakenly referred to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as 'President Putin.' He then accidentally called Vice President Kamala Harris 'Vice President Trump.'
And at a presidential debate against Donald Trump last month, Biden found himself trailing off.
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I heard a change in young people’s language when the Hays Code was done away with in movies and replaced by a “rating system” GMRX, the most vile cursing ever heard on screen.
You now can find it on line everywhere and in everyday speech.
Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that he can’t lie as effectively as he once (and always) did.
You can always tell Slow Joe is in trouble when he pauses and says, “Look.”
As though he’s getting frustrated that no one can follow his gibberish.
In fairness, his positions lack internal logic (other than power and money for himself) and the lies are not only absurd, but conflicting. That’s hard to keep straight.
It’s hard to be that fake for a 60 year public career. The BS is all piled up and what is real and what is fake is all jumbled.
Come on, man, here’s the deal...
“Joe Biden’s biggest problem is that he can’t lie as effectively as he once (and always) did.”
I think you nailed it. Biden has become an obvious liability to the dems. They require their liars to be polished. Slick Willie set the bar in the recent times.
They rallied around the old placeholder Biden as long as he said his lines and signed his bills and EOs. Now Biden embarrasses them and they hate being embarrassed in front of their donors.
Obviously.
.
Biden spoke like this in 2019.
Five years ago.
Nice to spend a day at the lake, and hear three generations of family saying “MFing this,” and “MFing that...”
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