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Senility is a term used to describe a decline in an older adult’s physical and cognitive health. Like dementia, senility can cause changes in mental health, such as memory loss or a decline in judgment. But senility symptoms can also include physical changes such as:

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Marco Domenicali & Annagiulia Gramenzi

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  1. Bologna Transcultural Psychosomatic Team (BoTPT), Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Ilaria Tarricone

  2. Center for Gender Research and Early Detection, University of Basel Psychiatric Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    Anita Riecher-Rössler

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Domenicali, M., Gramenzi, A. (2019). Senility. In: Tarricone, I., Riecher-Rössler, A. (eds) Health and Gender. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15038-9_18

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