September 18, 2004

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  As Americans Age, Dementia Poses a Voting-Rights Quandary
  

  By SHANKAR VEDANTAM
  THE WASHINGTON POST
  September 15, 2004
  

  Florida neurologist Marc Swerdloff was taken aback when one of his patients with advanced dementia voted in the 2000 presidential election. The man thought it was 1942 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president.

  
  

  Brian R. Ott, a scientist at Brown University, surveyed 100 patients at a Rhode Island dementia clinic after the 2000 presidential election and found that 60% had voted.

  
  

   In another survey,  Jason H.T. Karlawish and other researchers found that 64% of patients attending a dementia clinic in Pennsylvania had voted in the same election.

  
  

   

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