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May 7, 2004
Andrew Bergh: Can dementia patient be 'reasonable man'?
By ANDREW BERGH
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
Like most people, Edmund Gernannt didn't want to be institutionalized.
But Alzheimer's disease, the brain disorder that affects as many as 4.5 million Americans, had taken its toll on the New Jersey man. No longer able to appreciate the consequences of his own actions, Gernannt had become increasingly agitated and violent. So after Gernannt was declared mentally incompetent, his daughter and court-appointed guardian, Diane Lynn, grudgingly decided to commit her father to Bergen Pines County Hospital in Paramus, N.J.
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