2024-02-10 18:03:01
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, makes multiple errors during his speeches or press conferences: he mixes up names and dates, in particular. So, does the 81-year-old presidential candidate have memory problems? Does memory necessarily decline and from what age? We asked a neurologist the question.
An angry Joe Biden strongly defended himself Thursday after a devastating report that exonerated him in an investigation into the withholding of confidential documents, but described him as an “elderly man with a bad memory.”
“I mean well, I’m an old man and I know what I’m doing, dammit. I don’t have memory problems,” Mr. Biden, 81, defended during a televised speech .
Does memory necessarily decline?
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Latest errors by the American president: calling his French counterpart Mitterrand instead of Macron, or confusing the names of the Mexican and Egyptian presidents.
Memory problems linked to his age? Joe Biden denies it. But does memory necessarily decline? For this brain specialist, however, memory declines from the age of 60. “There is a decline which is part of the aging process. We worry, it’s normal, after so many problems and slips of the tongue,” explains a neurologist.
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With age, our memory will select the most important information and forget others. “Older people will remember what happened a long time ago, but new things are more difficult. Multi-tasking is also more difficult.”
Can we avoid these memory losses? Are there medications to delay these forgetfulness? “We would love to have a magic pill, but it doesn’t exist,” he says. No fountain of youth, but the ability to take care of oneself: “Sleep, food, physical activity: all of that is essential.”
For the neurologist, it is very important to continue to have projects: learning a new language for example and why not running for a presidential election…
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