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Neurologist weighs in on concerns about the age of presidential candidates

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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While much of the attention is focused on President Biden right now, there have been worries around the age of both Biden and former President Trump. Many of those questions have focused on cognitive skills, memory lapses and how they speak in public. Stephanie Sy discussed some of those concerns with Dr. Brad Dickerson of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

While much of the focus is on President Biden right now, there are concerns around the age of both

0:06.4

Biden and former President Donald Trump. Many of those questions have focused on cognitive

0:11.4

skills, memory lapses, and how they speak in public.

0:15.0

Stephanie Sigh looks at some of those concerns.

0:18.6

Jeff polls show that Americans have been concerned about this throughout the campaign. The numbers have been worse for President Biden.

0:23.0

The numbers have been worse for President Biden.

0:25.0

Polls have shown up to 80% of voters think he's too old to serve another term.

0:30.0

For former President Trump, up to 56% of voters say he's too old for the job.

0:36.4

We spoke to a couple of older voters with different perspectives this week.

0:40.2

I admire Biden for what he has done and what he is, but see my age is 93, 92 by the way, and I guess I have to be concerned during the debate, it seemed fairly clear to me that he was having some difficulties

0:55.8

from time of time despite the fact that I sympathize with President Biden and his

1:01.3

health the fact is just like like he's not getting any

1:04.0

younger. He may talk slow, he may stutter, he may walk slow, but he does know what

1:11.6

he's doing and he knows enough that he's getting good staff to compensate for any

1:19.8

slowdown that he may physically have to get the job done.

1:27.0

Let's talk about some of the questions voters have with an expert in aging cognition and memory. Dr Brad Dickerson is a

1:35.0

neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

1:39.2

Dr Dickerson, thank you so much for joining the news hour.

1:42.7

Before we even start this conversation,

1:44.8

let's just get out of the way that neither of us

1:46.7

wants to be making aegis generalizations here.

1:49.6

We all know there are 94-year-olds out there

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