While many U.S. voters believe Biden and Trump have counted too may birthdays to once again hold the most powerful office in the land, experts say that it's best to avoid making blanket pronouncements about when a person is too old for a given job.
Age, as the saying goes, may indeed be just a number, but many U.S. voters believe Biden and Trump have counted too may birthdays to once again hold the most powerful office in the land. Sixty-eight percent of U.S. adults surveyed in
“There’s shrinkage with time," Dr. Claudia Kawas, a professor of clinical neurology at the University of California, Irvine, told Yahoo News. "Just like nobody gets taller with age, they get shorter. The brain does not get bigger with age, and if it does it’s definitely not a good thing. The strongest correlate of atrophy is age, not disease.
Before either Trump or Biden took up residence in the White House, former President Ronald Reagan faced similar scrutiny. A 2015 analysis by Arizona State University researcherslinked changes in Reagan's speech patterns with the onset of dementia. But Kawas is quick to point out that it is virtually impossible to predict whether age could prove a bigger short-term liability for Biden or Trump.
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