Occasionally, the sexual appetite may be preserved for a long time in old men, or reappear for a time, with or without sexual power, but as a rule, the paradoxy of old men is the initial symptom of senile dementia.
It may be questioned whether this is a special category, for many sexual assaults committed on children are simply the effect of senile dementia, or abuse of children to satisfy an otherwise normal sexual appetite.
One often sees also, at the onset of senile dementia, an old man become enamored of some prostitute or adventuress who makes him marry her and thus takes possession of his fortune.
Westermark maintains that this condition is not normal, and we shall see that very often it is a case of commencing senile dementia, a pathological cerebral condition in which the sexual appetite becomes suddenly revived.
When this is so, we obtain those definite symptoms of slowly advancing dementia commencing in late middle life and ending in complete dementia before the usual period for the appearance of senile dementia.
Added tosenile dementia there is often found a condition of mania or melancholia or even of systematized delusional insanity.
We reproduce in full the record obtained from one of our cases of senile dementia.
In all cases the insanity came on late in life, and it was usually, without doubt, of the kind known as senile dementia.
Some of the eminent men of genius on my list (at least twelve) suffered before death from insanity which may probably be described as senile dementia.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "senile dementia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
