Did President Reagan have mild cognitive impairment while in office?
Living longer with Alzheimer's Disease
Publish date: September 1, 2004
Fredrick T. Sherman, MD, MSc, Medical Editor
Fredrick T. Sherman, MD, MSc, Medical Editor
At age 69, Ronald Reagan was the oldest man ever to be elected President. At his death at age 93, he had lived longer than any other U.S. President, despite his suffering from probable Alzheimer's Disease (AD) during the last 10 years of his life (1994-2004).