"faltering memory" is an idiomatic expression that is used in written English to refer to a person's weakening or waning memory due to age or illness.
For example, "She began to notice the signs of her faltering memory as she entered her later years."
My favourite of his books is Cultural Amnesia, an unfairly neglected tome that should be required reading for anyone with a faltering memory and a thirst for knowledge.
Her faltering memory has deteriorated so much in the nearly two years since her last Café Carlyle engagement that Mr. Bowman's sympathetic prompting, which has carried her through many forgetful lapses, was no longer sufficient to cover them.
First, on the micro and subjective level of analysis, older solo dwellers may struggle to perform the chores related to their household as they may deal with a failing body, faltering memory, and fixed if not shrinking income.
Sloan's faltering memory prompted Coen to comment at one point during his testimony: "I find that this witness is being deceptive".
(Sadly, on the day that Steinbrenner died, John Feinstein wrote on his blog that another sporting icon, North Carolina basketball's Dean Smith, is now fighting a faltering memory and declining health).
(Without stories, memory falters; and without memory imagination fails).
This is hardly the first time that a mass killing on American soil produced promises to curb firearms, only for those efforts to falter as memories faded and powerful gun advocates, led by the N.R.A., rose up in the halls of Washington or in statehouses.
Operating with a blend of military toughness and quiet empathy, the injured soldiers' support group -- believed to be the first of its kind on an Army base -- has taken on everything from fractured self images and faltering marriages to traumatic memories of Iraq and the pervading question of what each soldier's future looks like in the wake of both war and injury.
In exhaustion, my memory faltered.
Soon his memory faltered, he had difficulty writing letters and eventually could barely speak.
His piano playing, which was beautiful and poetic even when his fingers trembled and his memory faltered last Thanksgiving, has steadily become more sure and full.
