BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS
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There is no comprehensive information about how often ethics officials and lawyer assistance programs deal with lawyer dementia, according to Bloomberg Law. But the percentage of lawyers older than age 65–about 14%–is higher than the 7% of workers generally in that age group, suggesting that the problem could be worse in the legal profession.
And the numbers are growing. Over the last decade, the number of practicing lawyers older than age 65 has increased more than 50%.
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