And how do we know that this isn't a form of dementia? Has anyone ever studied it?
There have been many of these type of cases. Every time the response is that the elderly person is viewed as a villain.
I'm not saying what is the case with Bill. Your explanation is plausible, but what causes this unwinding?
Bill showed symptoms before, like hiring Patricia. How could the GOAT not understand how preposterous that was?
His family should be concerned, not embarrassed. Kraft's family should be embarrassed because he's acting out the way a normal perv does. Bill isn't.
I am very familiar with dementia (Deploy the predictable joke, if you must, lol.). Generally it is short-term memory which goes first, and I have not myself seen much sign of this in Bill, though my sample is admittedly small. I guess I don't think whether there is a technical diagnosis of dementia matters much, nor do I think either of us is in a position to make such a medical diagnosis. I can tell you from experience that the road to such a diagnosis is, even for medicos, a protracted and arduous task, in many cases
too protracted, no doubt. We might hope that eventually some simple, definitive test might emerge, but that is unlikely, as what we now call "dementia" covers in all likelihood a wide array of quite distinct conditions.
It suffices, I think, to note that this is a sad and ultimtely painful or tragic state into which Bill has fallen, and - for me anyway - one which we have seen before. Even my mother, who died at 102, sharp as tack and quite capable to the end, would say when people would tell her how great it was that she had lived so long,"Getting old is hard."
Mortality, and the decline which precedes our demise, are a *****, and in the end the technicalities of diagnosis don't really matter much.
