Full of Years; careful word choice(s)

(Today, my caution about a word sometimes used to describe older adults who are having more than a little trouble figuring things out.) In some lexicons, individuals—some of them older adults—can be described as addled, usually taken to mean something like dazed, confused, befuddled, disorganized or worse. (Intoxicated is listed as another synonym.) Like other words sometimes attached toMORE...