The word 'dotage' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to the period of life in which a person is old and weak, or mentally or physically impaired due to old age. Example: After working as a teacher for over 40 years, Ms. Johnson retired and spent her dotage traveling and enjoying time with her family.
The Millwall legend and record goalscorer will remain in temporary charge of the Championship strugglers for their visit to Southend United, the club which he grew up supporting and served with distinction in the dotage of a playing career that ended last June.
Mr Yeltsin's handlers presumably do not want the world to hear the incoherence into which Russia's first elected leader has lapsed.Kremlin courtiers down the centuries have realised that tsars in their dotage and decrepit party bosses have their uses.
But it is only when people start to die that the money to save them starts flowing in.In this section Flimsy foundations Fools rush in One into two Free for all Hedging against the horsemen Debt and dotage ReprintsSome kind of catastrophe insurance ought to help.
Above all, there is something irredeemably American about Mr Jagger's desire to compete: to prove that, even in their dotage, the Stones are still bigger than anybody else.The Economist once railed against America being taken over by "decadent puritans".
These are the same people, remember, who cannot get on the bottom rung of the property ladder, who must start saving money now if they expect to eat in their dotage.
That, in theory, should lead to lower asset values as countries enter their dotage, but the empirical record is mixed: house prices often fall, but stocks sometimes rise.An important variable is whether assets sold by pensioners are domestic or foreign.
In other words, locking up violent criminals while they are young, strong and reckless does indeed keep the streets safer, but keeping them locked up deep into their dotage costs a fortune and prevents very few crimes.It is also unfair.
But their consulate estimates that up to 400,000 of London's 7.6m people are citizens of the republic, possibly making the French the largest minority nationality in the city.A similar number of Britons live in France, but mainly for a sunny dotage in the bucolic south.
Rubbish, said Mr Starmer.In this section A very big headache A simpler dotage No going back Not moving on up Red-faced all over Careful now The One Nation radical ReprintsWhat now?
Governments have largely nationalised the traditional functions of the family, but in doing so they have not eliminated the need for future generations to care for the current ones in their dotage.
The civic-minded Bea proves a bit too good at saying no, and at length saves herself for a well-dressed dotage.
