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Peer reviewedChicoine, Brian; McGuire, Dennis – Mental Retardation, 1997
This case study of an 83-year-old woman with Down syndrome suggests she is the longest surviving person with the condition. Also noted is the lack of decline in mental function and performance of activities of daily living despite the apparently universal presence of the neuropathologic changes of Alzheimer's disease in persons with Down syndrome…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Alzheimers Disease, Case Studies, Downs Syndrome
