• JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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    10 months ago

    These cognitive tests are the kind given to measure the onset of dementia when you suspect there is some sort of cognitive deficiency. This isn’t something you give senior adults just for funsies, doing unnecessary medical testing is not ethical, and it’s not some difficult test. Seriously, there’s questions where it’s connect the dots 1->A->2->B->3… and draw a clock with a specific time represented. It’s not a difficult test, and that’s the point.

    You do it when there are other signs of dementia which Biden HAS NOT DISPLAYED in any sense.

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      10 months ago

      senior adults

      Senior Citizen?

      That’s usually 62, 65 if people are being generous…

      Biden will be 20 years older than that while president if he wins the next term.

      Like, imagine if someone put off prostate checks for 20 years because “they didn’t need it”.

      Aging is something that happens to all of us if we’re lucky enough

      Biden isn’t Superman.

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        10 months ago

        Nice disingenuous choice comparing a routine test that can detect something otherwise invisible to a measurement test used to view progression of an already suspected condition.

        (Also, as more evidence you’re probably out of touch on the usefulness of the assessment, the term senior citizen isn’t the current term used, as it’s viewed as out of style and patronizing by members of that group. Senior adult itself is preferential to senior citizen while also declining in use and older adult seems more likely to be the current preferred vernacular by group members.)

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          Nice disingenuous choice comparing a routine test that can detect something otherwise invisible to a measurement test used to view progression of an already suspected condition.

          I believe you, but I’d like to get a source on this.

          Mostly because the fact that Trump is receiving this on a regular basis (according to him) means that he’s already got a suspected condition.