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Even though this aged woman may have spent her life as a Shakespeare scholar or a well-known scientist, her emerging-adult granddaughter will be tempted to talk to her frail, tiny grandma in elderspeak. How often have you used this patronizing type of speech with a cognitively sharp person in her eighties or nineties just because she looked as if she might be impaired?
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