Mirth Under the circumstances, what might be a pretty normal emotional response to your partner's incipient cognitive decline could still appear to be stonewalling to another person.
My old man is a retired academic and has had a cognitive decline as the result of two mini-strokes in the past couple of years. A few months ago I had to advise my mum to stop lining him up with such confidence to meet a visiting Japanese academic who admires his work. He's bound to a walking frame, struggles to draft an email, and forgets a word or two in complex sentences, but she understandably doesn't want to think about it.
My dad's a few years younger than Biden, though. Biden simply shouldn't be there. It's no job for an eighty year old. It's a farcical situation.
