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Joe Biden's life has been greatly shaped by grief and he indicated that he has "wounds that don't ever really heal".<ref>[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-age-media-227499 Is Joe Biden Too Old?]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/31/joe-bidens-heartfelt-thoughts-on-grief/ Joe Biden’s heartfelt speech on grief], Washington Post</ref><ref>[https://www.apnews.com/e5a1e70314eb44219448eeb850c65f1e Biden’s prism of loss: A public man, shaped by private grief], Associated Press</ref> | Joe Biden's life has been greatly shaped by grief and he indicated that he has "wounds that don't ever really heal".<ref>[https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-age-media-227499 Is Joe Biden Too Old?]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/05/31/joe-bidens-heartfelt-thoughts-on-grief/ Joe Biden’s heartfelt speech on grief], Washington Post</ref><ref>[https://www.apnews.com/e5a1e70314eb44219448eeb850c65f1e Biden’s prism of loss: A public man, shaped by private grief], Associated Press</ref> | ||
| − | The ''American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry'' in a journal article entitled ''Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons'' that individuals with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) "showed a decrease in global cognitive function". | + | The ''American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry'' in a journal article entitled ''Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons'' that individuals with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) compared with a reference group "showed a decrease in global cognitive function". |
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Revision as of 16:41, August 25, 2019
There are widespread concerns that Joe Biden is suffering from cognitive decline (see: Biden's age).
Joe Biden's life has been greatly shaped by grief and he indicated that he has "wounds that don't ever really heal".[2][3][4]
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry in a journal article entitled Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons that individuals with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) compared with a reference group "showed a decrease in global cognitive function".
According to Politico:
| “ | The New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, CNN, the Atlantic, the Associated Press, Slate and just about every other.. outlet you can name has crossed the ageism line to ask the “too old” question in recent articles about Joe Biden, age 76, often in the headline itself.
...after tallying Biden’s repeated stumbles, miscues and mental lapses, journalists tend to retreat from calling Biden too infirm to run the White House. The greater press taboo, it seems, isn’t asking the question about Biden but answering it.[5] |
” |
Matthew Walther, a national correspondent for The Week, wrote about Biden's age:
| “ | These days, Biden is confused about everything and everyone virtually all the time... He routinely says things that are absolute gibberish... These are not ordinary slips of the tongue. They are signs of cognitive decline that will be familiar to anyone who, like me, spends a good deal of time in the company of people who are roughly Biden's age."[6] | ” |
Joe Biden and his struggles with grief
Politico in an article entited How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower’ indicates:
| “ | There is no person in American politics today whose life has been so shaped by loss and grief. The long arc of Biden’s career is all but bracketed by tragedy. In 1972, his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident; in 2015, one of his two sons who had survived the crash died of a rare strain of brain cancer. These wretched tentpoles are not only tragedies the 76-year-old Biden has had to endure. They influenced major decisions he made about his political career—first, his priorities in the Senate; later, his decision to opt out of the presidential election of 2016. And they defined him as a person as well, according to longtime friends, former aides and veteran politicos in his home state of Delaware.[7] | ” |
The Washington Post states concerning Biden: "In a candid 2012 speech to military families and friends who had lost a loved one in action, Biden spoke about the anger, crisis of faith and wounds that don't really ever heal."[8]
The Associated Press indicates concerning Biden:
| “ | After the accident, Biden had no interest in the Senate anymore. No ambition for anything, really. His world view shrank to taking care of his boys.
“For the first time in my life, I understood how someone could consciously decide to commit suicide,” he would later reveal. Biden didn’t just have to deal with grief. He had the added burden of processing it in public. [9] |
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Unresolved/prolonged grief and cognitive decline
See also: Prolonged grief disorder and cognitive decline
Bereavement can result in unresolved/prolonged grief, which is often called prolonged grief disorder (PGD).[10]
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry in a journal article entitled Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons
| “ | Compared with the reference group, participants with PGD showed a decrease in global cognitive function, MMSE scores, and World learning test (immediate and delayed) over time. Participants with normal grief did not show a stronger cognitive decline in any of cognitive tests than the reference group.[11] | ” |
References
- ↑ Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons
- ↑ Is Joe Biden Too Old?
- ↑ Joe Biden’s heartfelt speech on grief, Washington Post
- ↑ Biden’s prism of loss: A public man, shaped by private grief, Associated Press
- ↑ Is Joe Biden Too Old?
- ↑ What will it take for the Democratic establishment to abandon Biden? by Matthew Walther, The Week
- ↑ How Grief Became Joe Biden’s ‘Superpower’
- ↑ Joe Biden’s heartfelt speech on grief, Washington Post
- ↑ Biden’s prism of loss: A public man, shaped by private grief, Associated Press
- ↑ Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons
- ↑ Prolonged Grief and Cognitive Decline: A Prospective Population-Based Study in Middle-Aged and Older Persons
