November 29, 2004
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2004-11-10 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Dementia Meets Democracy
"Do Persons With Dementia Vote?" J.H. Karlawish,
D.A. Casarett, B.D. James, K.J. Propert, and
D.A. Asch, Neurology, vol. 58, no. 7, April 9, 2002,
pp. 1100-2. The authors, who are at
the University of Pennsylvania, explain that
"To examine whether patients with dementia voted in
the 2000 US Presidential Election, the authors surveyed
75 caregivers of patients with dementia. A substantial
portion of patients with mild to moderate dementia voted
on their own at a voting booth."
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Comments (1)
I heard a thing on this the week before the election on NPR. I think they were discussing how to know whether a person with dementia was competent to vote.
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