Despite his efforts to occupy his thoughts, he wrote in his diary that his mind "deteriorates each passing day".
Janowitz captures, with startling eloquence, the experience of watching her mother's mind deteriorate: "It was like trying to call someone internationally, someone up on Mount Everest, with a bad connection.
Sensitivity allows the aging, like my dad who suffers with Alzheimer's, the capacity to write and speak honestly about the past and also about how it feels to have a mind deteriorating.
However, most people around the world with dementia are forced to watch their minds deteriorate.
Martz said her mind slowly deteriorated.
His health and state of mind rapidly deteriorated.
After a public birthday appearance, one of his lawyers said that although he might look healthy enough, his mind had deteriorated.
In Erbil, Kurdi's state of mind is deteriorating.
It is his fervent hope that before her mind completely deteriorates, he can give her the church wedding she wanted when they were younger but he was unable to provide.
Bearing in mind the deteriorating ecological, environmental and climatic conditions, focus should be on reducing herd numbers and improving quality of cattle.
